Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

Chocolate isn’t just something we eat − it’s something we crave, celebrate and even associate with comfort and pleasure. We love its decadent flavor, silky smoothness and melt-in-your-mouth texture so ...

Delightfully, at least from your employees’ perspective, research from a group of universities led by Rutgers shows the benefits of office gossip are most pronounced when staff are chatting about the ...

I’m a big crier. The tears flow when I’m feeling sad. Or grateful. Or frustrated. Awestruck, PMS-y, joyous, relieved…. You get the idea. I used to try and hide this tendency like it was something to ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Television can make us feel all sorts of feelings, from fear to excitement to joy to sadness. That is one of the great powers of the medium — its ability to get us so invested in storylines and ...

Can you feel alone in a crowd? Unloved in a decades-long marriage? Indeed, that’s often when loneliness strikes hardest: when you experience social connections and seemingly intimate relationships, ...

If you've experienced a jolt of excitement when your phone buzzes, a rush from seeing a new parking space open up, or a flutter of hope before good news lands, you've experienced dopamine at work. But ...

Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation Katie Edwards is a health and medicine editor at The Conversation in the UK. Clodagh Toomey receives ...

When it comes to identifying great ideas, billionaire Barry Diller has a simple piece of advice: Don't be a cynic. Diller is a big fan of "creative conflict" group brainstorming sessions, he said in ...

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Believe it or not, good news was made in 2025. These are the heartwarming stories of reconnected siblings, a school leader going above and beyond, and — of course — a few cute dogs and cats that ...