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Barry Greenberg, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, was recently named recipient of a 2026 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award ...

Workplaces invest a lot of resources focusing on employee resilience. They try to hire for it through skillfully crafted interview questions. They pay trainers to teach employees how to bounce back ...

Stress is uncomfortable. It can physically tense us and strain the mind. Psychologists have documented negative effects of stress, especially when it is chronic, on our well-being. Thus, it might seem ...

Luc Besson's Dracula Movie Clip - Contribution To Science - When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) witnesses the brutal murder of his wife (Zoe Bleu), he renounces God and damns heaven itself ...

In a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted on Thursday to provide billions of dollars more to the National Oceanic and ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

For decades a small number of hardy souls have celebrated New Year’s in the most bracing way possible — jumping into icy water for a festive “polar plunge.” The obvious downsides of the practice long ...

Worsham and Jena are physicians and researchers at Harvard Medical School and the authors of “Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients and Shape Our Health.” This ...