Adults who feel loneliest in a full room aren’t ungrateful or cold, they may simply have learned long ago that being understood and being...
The Two Faces of Loneliness: Social and Emotional
Over the past decade, researchers studying loneliness have uncovered a crucial distinction: loneliness manifests in two fundamentally...
An ALS patient just logged 3,800 hours speaking through a brain implant at home — and the researchers are quietly calling him something the...
Casey Harrell: Pioneering Speech Through a Brain-Computer Interface
Casey Harrell’s care partner begins each day by connecting the cables of his brain-computer interface (BCI), then...
A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled...
Teens and AI Companions: A Revealing 2025 Survey
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens aged 13 to 17 revealed a striking...
Researchers investigating how people recover after work identified four off-hours experiences that were linked to lower strain — detachment, relaxation, mastery and control
Understanding True Recovery After Work: Beyond Just Being Off the Clock
You finish work, close your laptop, and tell yourself the evening is yours. Yet...
The people in their 60s who seem to have drifted from close friendships weren’t cold or indifferent — they were often the emotional anchor...
The Overlooked Role of the Emotional Anchor in Friendships
There is a particular type of person you might meet in their sixties who seems to...