Sprinting fast is great. But what baseball coach Steven Cutter really wants to know is how quickly his players can process emotion. He gives his team five seconds to recenter themselves after a bad at ...

Sometimes patients say they had “a reaction” to a treatment, but they don’t always mean what doctors have in mind when they use the word, “reaction.” Doctors divide reactions into two kinds: 1) ...

The ancient Greeks imagined three Fates - one spun the thread of life, the second measured its length, and the third snipped it off. Science has tried to provide more plausible (if less poetic) ...