A family pet is often a child’s first close relationship outside the human world. Through daily care, uncomplicated affection ...

Some viral vaccines, such as measles and polio, confer lifelong immunity, and that is the rationale for giving these ...

Money troubles aren’t simply about numbers on a bank statement. They encompass the emotional weight of uncertainty, the daily ...

For British-Indian musician Soumik Datta, music has always been a way to listen inward and make sense of a turbulent world.

What if I were to photograph Sophia—a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics—and then, in a separate session, the ...

Learn how the harbor seal became Rhode Island’s state animal and what this whiskered swimmer says about the Ocean State.

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...

Way too many people died last year because someone couldn’t wait to make a call or send a text. Stand near any busy road, and ...

K?” both parents and dog owners know that some words should not be spoken, but only spelled, to prevent small ears from eavesdropping on the conversation. At the age of 1.5 years toddlers can already ...

This time of year is usually full of promise and good intentions. But when global unrest of various kinds starts to seem like the new normal, it can be hard to feel hopeful about the year ahead. Here ...

It’s a feeling older than stage lights. Older than the “content era.” Older than the moment where the world finally decides ...

On the Theory of Human Nature in the Confucian Tradition: Focusing on Zhang Huang’s Theory of Nature and Qi. Open Journal of ...