Anita Desai, an acclaimed author, has always been known for her deep understanding of human emotions and relationships ...

Empathy is a foundational therapeutic tool. So is attensity, a revitalized way to define attention. From behaviorists to bed-rotting, a short history of this lost term of art.

The concept of human understanding revolves around finding ways to treat patients as unique individuals and personalize each patient’s experiences in every interaction with the healthcare system. NRC ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

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Archaeologists study artifacts, monuments, and other remains to get a better sense of human history. What they discover often rewrites humans' past and changes the way we think about our species.

A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) has now been published in Nature. This work encompasses the efforts of more than 3,600 HCA members from over one hundred ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

AI has the potential to accelerate operations, but this raises a new challenge: how to keep humans in the loop when AI can ...