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NPR Health Health
Factory workers in India are being asked to wear GoPro cameras to record the way they do their jobs. The ultimate goal is to train robots to take over. Will it work?
NPR Health Health
For years, customers have complained of aggressive sales tactics and charges at mall skincare stores. NPR investigated the business that connects many of them.
NPR Health Health
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Dr. Otis Brawley, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins University, about the Pope's lung cancer diagnosis.
The Conversation: Health Health
While lung cancer rates have decreased by 43% in men, they have risen by 79% in women. Broader screening guidelines and recognizing early symptoms can help address the changing face of lung cancer.
Mindful Mind
Garden meditation is a simple way to turn time outdoors into a mindfulness practice—no garden required. Here's how to start, even from a balcony or park bench.
NPR Health Health
Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night , she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
DARIEN, IL — New research suggests that a consumer smartwatch can help identify adults with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea, offering a way to screen for a common sleep disorder that often goes undiagnosed. Results show that the...
The Conversation: Health Health
Not all nicotine products are equally harmful. An addiction medicine physician explains how to parse the science.
The Conversation: Health Health
Sexual enhancement supplements often contain unlisted prescription drugs that pose serious health risks.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
My 10-year-old son came to me recently with a question about black holes. Not in the way children usually do, restless and easily redirected, but with the focused intensity of someone who had already been thinking for a while. He had been...
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
For many Americans, driving is an everyday necessity, but getting behind the wheel without enough sleep can have serious consequences. According to survey results from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 41% of adults say they have felt...
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
Season 8 | Episode 19 In this episode of Talking Sleep, host Dr. Seema Khosla welcomes Dr. Binal Kancherla, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director for the Sleep Program at Texas Children's Hospital, to discuss how sleep...
Mindful Mind
Ever wonder why your emails tend to be better when you wait a little before replying? Choosing to take a pause before we act may sound simple, but it yields powerful results. Longtime mindfulness teacher and author Andrew Safer shares a few...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers, and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence applications for tasks that demand imagination, creativity, and problem solving. Ironically, perhaps...
The Conversation: Health Health
Labeling medical test results as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ helps clinicians make quick judgments when diagnosing patients. But this binary approach to interpreting tests can lead to fatal errors.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
The number of board-certified physicians in the U.S. with active certification in sleep medicine has increased for the third year in a row, according to data compiled by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in the 2025 – 2026...
Mindful Mind
What the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku ("forest bathing") can teach us about attention, emotional well-being, and finding moments of quiet in a world that rarely stops.
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Quick Summary Trying to overhaul everything at once is why getting healthier feels overwhelming before you’ve even started. You don’t need a bigger plan. You need the next quest. The next 30 days, mapped: start with a short walk today...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and selectively sharing food. The behavior offers a glimpse into humanity’s prosocial evolutionary past. But a question has...
The Conversation: Health Health
A custody battle over a newborn with a heart condition raised a question courts have rarely faced: Can anyone be forced to end a pregnancy?
The Conversation: Health Health
The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Artificial intelligence can summarize research, generate ideas, and analyze enormous amounts of data in seconds. The power of that little “Ask anything” AI prompt box is immense, but can it help us make wiser decisions? Cheryl Strauss...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Explore how cyclic sighing, a simple controlled breathing technique, can help reduce anxiety, promote relaxation, and bring greater calm to everyday stressful moments.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
DARIEN, IL — When Americans turn their clocks back one hour on Sunday, Nov. 1, they will once again participate in a practice most would rather leave behind. As Congress weighs competing proposals that would end seasonal clock changes, the...