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Research has found that stress can be the cause of excessive social media usage. Treating stress can be the first step to cutting back on screen time.

Curiosity-driven exploration is more likely to help you retain information than having a more urgent mindset, according to a recent study.

If Leonard White shows you around the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, there’s a good chance he will hand you an actual brain. It weighs about three pounds, but unlike the squishy one in your skull, brains preserved for study feel rubbery. And visitors love to hold them.  “They respond with wonder, with excitement, with maybe a bit of nervousness, but with amazing curiosity,” says White. “And it’s a very rewarding experience for my guests, as well as for myself.”  

Get moments of stillness and thoughtfulness in a chaotic world in 2023. Thinking Egg reminds you to slow down and rest. But does it work?

Amanda Gefter writes about how our body twitches during REM sleep affect our dreams, and the scientific theories about why we dream.

According to Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist and Indiana University School of Medicine Professor Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, it’s time to update and invigorate mentorship relationships in the sciences to produce better outcomes. He has coined the new model agile mentorship that benefits both mentee and mentor as it grows the social capital of the scientific community across generations. “Agile Mentorship: A Longitudinal Exploratory Analysis" is published in the peer-reviewed AT...

Two experts in the College of Arts and Sciences discuss the dangers of drug abuse, addiction and the ongoing opioid epidemic.

The foundational history of the Max Planck Society's research institutions in the eastern German states began on July 3, 1990 — just two days after the State Treaty on the Monetary, Economic, and Social Union of the two German states came into force. The first Institute in Saxony, the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, started its work in the summer of 1993. Five more Institutes followed suit.

Among the enduring social changes to follow the COVID-19 pandemic has been a collective shift to group video calls for work meetings. Many of us still end those calls with a “Zoom wave” three years later. But why?

A look at the cognitive and physiological effects of alcohol, determinants of glacier periods, and how our bodies remember stress.