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Dreams are subjective, but there are ways to peer into the minds of people while they are dreaming. Steven Strogatz speaks with sleep researcher Antonio Zadra about how new experimental methods have changed our understanding of dreams.

Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian.

These Black-led groups have popped up across the country as more and more Black people have reported prolonged Covid symptoms — and difficulty getting treatment.

By sharing my story, I hope to dispel stigma and internalized shame, and help anyone struggling know they are not alone.

Sometimes when Charlie Chasen or Michael Malone would be out and about on their own in Atlanta, people would mistake one for the other.

A Silicon Valley startup offers voice-altering tech to call center workers around the world. Is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it?

Nature - Bystander-intervention programmes use humour and other tools to call out bullying and harassment in science.

The analysis found that people were at increased risk for dementia, epilepsy, psychosis and brain fog for about two years after contracting covid.

New laws make it harder for teachers to discuss racism and inequality, but psychological evidence shows these conversations dispel causes of bias and distress

Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on their race. The couple has filed a lawsuit in Maryland.

At the end of her life, Eva Perón was suffering from painful cancer and displaying erratic behavior, and her lobotomy may have been a way to treat both problems.

These evidence-based strategies can help you achieve healthy work-life balance

Social media is both making DID better known, and creating room for more misunderstanding.

Creator response to viral TikTok account the Wonderland System shows spotlight on complications of documenting mental health online.

Humor can lighten the mood. But it can also provoke, cajole, and inspire. This hour, TED speakers share how we can wield humor as a tool across all aspects of our lives.

Chelsea Becker, prosecuted for murder after her stillbirth, spent 16 months in jail: ‘Why did the hospital call police?’

A conversation with Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry about their new book, The Flag and the Cross.

The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

“It's been like hell on earth realizing, ‘Woah, people really hate people like me.’”

Deep Squeak is the name of an artificial intelligence program that was designed to detect the high-frequency "squeaks" mice and rats make when they are stressed. But a new application of the technology is putting a much bigger emphasis on the "deep": It's being used to search for whales and other marine mammals in a ocean environments.

The pioneers of social genetics were racists and eugenicists: should we give up on the science they founded altogether?

AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety has ended the controversial practice of using hypnosis to investigate crimes. A department spokesman said the...

Experts who study the way we think and make decisions say that it can be more than politics driving our decision-making this year. The unprecedented nature of the pandemic undermines how we process information and assess risk. Need proof? Look around.

Distinguishing excessive doubt from excessive belief can help inform how to bring a conspiracy theorist back to reality.

About half of all people surveyed by the American Psychological Association said they were worried about adjusting to in-person interaction.

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries about the so-called Central Park Five illustrates, with excruciating clarity, the consequences of dehumanizing language.

It’s no secret that, throughout history, sex workers have been dehumanized by both police and society. But a relatively modern police acronym was used to denote those deemed not important enough to be considered legitimate victims of crime — including sex workers.