Developing antibody tests for SARS-CoV-2
In response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), governments have instigated rules that constrain personal freedoms and hamstring...
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Sexual arousal: Sex matters
When it comes to sex, women are faced with a lack of hard facts. Consider the existence of an anatomical area known as the Gräfenberg...
Funding: Austerity bites deeply
PhD students in Luiz Davidovich's quantum-optics laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil are afraid to...
Personality influences lifespan as much as socioeconomic status. Why is that?
On this day in 1930, the Mother Superior of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sent a letter asking every member...
The internet can harm your productivity by making you sad – here's what to do
In September, the first positivity officers of the United Arab Emirates’s Ministry for Happiness will begin their training in happiness...
Divorce continues to take a psychological toll on kids
In the early 1920s, a list of exceptionally bright children was assembled for a study about growing up as a genius. These individuals...
Loss and damage post-Paris
The Paris Agreement gave the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage a permanent and potentially prominent place in climate...
Referendums are supposed to make people happy. Why are even leave voters upset?
I write this column about happiness research from my home in Oxford, England, where the mood is worse than I have ever experienced. Like...
Gains in women's rights haven't made women happier. Why is that?
Women are outliving men in every country in the world, despite facing higher levels of poverty than men, greater odds of encountering...
All Aboard London's Kleptocracy Tour
Yesterday morning I boarded a white, unmarked bus parked alongside the river Thames, not far from the Houses of Parliament. In today’s...
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