Controversial psychotherapist Dr. Stanley Siegel believes fantasizing and enactment are potent tools for healing unresolved issues.

Some really smart people are anxious to persuade the rest of us that more money can't buy us more happiness. But new research finds that more money enables people to buy the experiences and conveniences that increase overall life satisfaction.

New research finds that adding iron to the oceans to capture more carbon isn't worth the risk.

A new study concludes that everyone uses reason to persuade, not to find truth.

A mathematician says the quest for elegance leads too many researchers astray.

The deadly 10-ton meteorite that recently hit Russia shows how cosmic threats can galvanize humanity.

The science and spirituality of global mind, or why we should regard the world as a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Deep within the recesses of your cortex, two different brain networks battle with each other for control of your attention.

Can playing multiplayer online role-playing videogames boost some parts of cognitive function as we age? An intriguing new study says yes.

While it is profoundly difficult predicting the developmental trajectory of any individual, new research suggests we can influence the odds that people will retreat within themselves or unleash the fundamentally human drive to explore and create.

As facts are made and remade with increasing speed, the author of the book "The Half-Life of Facts" is worried that most of us don't keep up to date. That means we're basing decisions on facts dimly remembered from school and university classes -- facts that often turn out to be wrong.

How nuclear sludge gave birth to an experimental leukemia treatment.

Suburban sprawl and recent droughts both threaten the milkweed that is essential to the monarch butterfly's survival. But scientists say most of the monarchs' downfall is likely tied to modern-day agricultural practices.

Harvard happiness guru Shawn Achor reveals seven brain secrets for finding pleasure in our work (and elsewhere).

We know our children need sleep in order to grow and function well in school, yet somehow we forget that as adults we need sleep too. Quality sleep. Every night. Scientists are just now figuring out why.

Do plants have a nervous system? Can they feel pain? These are questions that have exercised everyone from Charles Darwin to L Ron Hubbard.

Recent findings in happiness research appear to vindicate the wisdom of novelist Gertrude Stein's wry observation, "Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."

Certainly, labels can be beneficial. In a school setting, a formal label determined by a school psychologist can be the only thing that gets a child needed special resources. But labels do have a potential downside.

What a cellular biologist methodically teaches us about management.

Can meme theory explain the sometimes fatal desire to impersonate a piece of wood.