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The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.

About 51 million people around the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet half of the general public doesn’t understand what schizophrenia really is

Though it looks promising, there are some issues to work out before it becomes widespread.   

The robot band cannot replicate the punk attitude of the Ramones or the soulfulness of B.B. King. Yet.

A firestorm of speculation has been generated by a notice from NASA announcing a major discovery in the field of astrobiology, to be released today at 2 p.m. According to […]

"Lethal autonomous weapon" sounds friendlier than "killer robot."

Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."

ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.

Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.

Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.

A new study concludes that eating more carbohydrates reduces a person's risk of major depressive disorder.

Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must've been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here's how cosmic inflation solves it.

In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.

A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.

Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?

More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.

We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

Living is about staying busy.

We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don't work together.

Who should be compensated?

We also don't know how Tylenol works. But it does work.

Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?

It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.

We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.

An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.

Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?

How to unlock your brain’s natural antidepressants.

Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.

The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.

We've fooled ourselves before with galaxies that look just like this one. The evidence we have simply isn't strong enough.