Human Nature
Human Nature encompasses peoples' actions, perceptions, and thought processes. Topics include food cravings, mind-reading, and contagious yawning.
Youngest Child Syndrome: The Perks and Challenges of Being the Baby of the Family
Only Child Syndrome: Understanding the Myths and Realities of Growing Up Without Siblings
9 Hangover Cures From Around the World
Can you really feel the weather in your bones?
10 Myths About Body Fat
Not So Funny: The Mysterious 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
Shinrin-yoku: The Soothing Practice of Forest Bathing
6 Ways Reading a Book Beats Reading Digitally, Hands Down
What causes 'old person' smell?
Why Is the Term 'Gaslighting' So Popular Now — and So Misused?
Feel Like a Fraud, Despite Your Success? You Might Have Impostor Syndrome
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This expression is repeated about as often apples are eaten. But does it have any truth to it? Should the apple really take credit for keeping people in impeccable health?
By Amy Hunter
Another headache? Time to reach for your snake oil -- or maybe your electromagnetic belt. Quacks have pulled the wool over people's eyes for years in the name of medicine. Here are 10 of their more outrageous cons.
By Tom Scheve
Why does the combination of orange juice and toothpaste have to taste so awful? Why can't your sense of taste resolve the problem?
By Josh Clark
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Smell is a basic sense, but scientists are still exploring how it works. Why are researchers, developers and even government agencies so curious about smell? What makes a seemingly simple sense so tantalizing?
By Sarah Dowdey
Taste might seem like the simplest sense. But we know much less about taste than we do about sight and hearing. Why is taste so mysterious? And what on earth is umami?
By Sarah Dowdey
Ears are truly extraordinary organs and hearing is a fascinating process. Ears pick up all the sounds around you and then translate this information into a form your brain can understand.
By Tom Harris
What causes smell? When I walk into a bakery, I smell the bread. What actually has happened? Do objects give off pieces of matter? What has entered my nose to cause the sensation of smell?
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Light is what drives life. It’s hard to imagine our world and life without it. The sensing of light by living things is almost universal. Find out all about the amazing inner workings of the human eye.