Culture

Why we wear green and other holiday curiosities.

Most young children can easily pick up languages and learn immense amounts of knowledge in their early years. How do they pull this off?

Race and ethnicity are terms that are sometimes used sloppily, almost interchangeably. But race and ethnicity are not the same thing.

Love stimulates the release of hormones such as oxytocin in certain brain regions.

Is the simplest explanation always the best one, as Occam's razor states?

Researchers looking at the same data set in social science produce wildly different results, and very little of that variability can be explained by bias.

Human violence is in the news every day. But is violence innate in Homo sapiens?

Habits can be hard to break, but here are a few ways you can do it.

Despite tales of overcrowding, fighting and tragedy, hundreds of people continue to try to summit Everest every year. What's the appeal?

Are ghosts real? Ghost hunters like to believe that ghosts exist, but science and logic are the real ghost busters.

Many fairytales have an evil stepmother who is determined to ruin the lives of her stepchildren. But what are the roots of this age-old trope?

"Dunbar's number" implies that our relationship threshold is limited to 150 people. But is this true?

In moments of extreme fear, the body can sometimes flip people into a state of bliss.

On New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

An ultramarathon runner overcame an early injury, sleep deprivation and steep terrain to complete an astounding 2,189-mile run along the Appalachian Trail in 46 days and 8 hours.