Sara Novak
Dogs not only can smell stress in human sweat — they also react to it emotionally
Humans and dogs have been close companions for perhaps 30,000 years, according to anthropological and DNA evidence. So it would make sense that ...
Running out of storage: Here’s how our brains decide which memories are worth keeping
We’ve known for some time now that during sleep, the brain undergoes a memory spring cleaning of sorts, during which ...
Going on 4 years later, 1 in 16 Americans still suffer from brain fog and other remnants of COVID
4 years ago, physicians coined the term "long COVID" to describe a form of the viral infection from which recovery ...
‘Wandering minds’ have been critical for evolution
Our minds may have been the key to our survival. Learn the evolution and psychology of the wandering mind ...
‘You act like a Neanderthal’? Consensus view changes — Homo Sapiens no smarter than our extinct cousins
We’ve long thought that humans must have survived because we were intelligent enough to outsmart our own extinction; meanwhile the ...
Why are so many people resistant to daydreaming?
Thinking is a funny thing because research has shown that we’re the only species that can do it aimlessly. While ...
How technology can reduce pesticide drift
Though neither the EPA nor various state agencies could provide reliable statistics on the total number of [pesticide] drift incidents, ...