Search results for

A dog bite in an English park brings about a confrontation and poses the question, does the universe require us to like everyone?

Full disclosure brings us closer. What is annoying to one is annoying to most, but there is one response that is universal.

Research shows that babies are not born blank slates but are innately altruistic. Is it true? Look back at your earliest memory. Who do you see?

There are 8.2 billion of us on this planet—the only planet in the solar system not named for a god. As the latest telescopes take us back to within 380,000 years of the Big Bang, prepare to be awed.

When a child nearly dies, a parent has to reassess the inevitably of letting go. Not to be the wind that carries the boat home, but the sea beneath, carrying that vessel wherever it needs to go.

A mother gives her daughter an awful piece of art as a wedding gift. Brain science says secret-keeping disconnects you from your sense of self, but sometimes your sense of self depends on keeping a secret.

A woman discovers she has an unusually high percentage of Neanderthal genes. What if all races go the way of the Neanderthals? A humorous look at where we are going, where we have been.

A hot air balloon flight is a mesmerizing lesson on the physics of love and the physics of sound.

Suitcases too heavy to lift, reservations cancelled. The man in the Ray-Bans, the compassionate reservations clerk, may never be seen again but their kindnesses are not forgotten. So many of us traveling together for just a short time. Who’s sitting next to you?

When bats invade a pregnant young mother’s house while she is alone with two children on a stormy night with no electricity, she learns it is easier to be brave as a unit.