In conversation with professor Alia Crum, Sakamoto explores the psychology of how our everyday mindsets shape meaning.

Researchers at Caltech have calculated how fast the human brain processes information — and the number turned out to be hilariously low. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Neuron, the ...

Kleeman’s book investigates the many ways decision-makers find themselves putting a price on the priceless. In her quest to discover how our modern world fixes a price to human life in a wide variety ...

Researchers are now suggesting that male and female lifespans continue to increase linearly, and have not yet hit a hard limit. Previous studies argued that human life expectancy is increasing by less ...

After decades of rising life expectancy, the increases appear to be slowing. A new study calls into question how long even the healthiest of populations can live. By Dana G. Smith The oldest human on ...

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