Researchers found that the same area of the brain that is activated in response to sex or food is activated when people even ...

If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden ...

On the Thursday, November 13, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: In honor of World Kindness Day — we’ve partnered with the Humankind team at USA TODAY for a deeper exploration on the topic of ...

The lights were a little bright inside for dancing compared to a bar or club somewhere else in Brooklyn, but better for reading because this was a bookstore, after all. Gladys Books & Wine opened this ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

Writing is hard. Writing books is harder. So as a mere plebeian author interviewing Dan Brown for the first time, I needed to know: After you’ve sold 200 million books, does it get any easier? “It’s ...

Tucker Nelson was diagnosed with a brain tumor on Aug. 1 and went into surgery on Aug. 8 Kiya McLaurin; HarperCollins At 22, Tucker Nelson found out he had a brain tumor The night before his surgery, ...

A Malcolm, Nebraska man recently published a book about his extraordinary life. It’s a book about faith, perseverance, and hard work after a brain injury. It’s Derek Ruth’s comeback story. The book is ...

In a new study, researchers have found that mice can instinctively exhibit rescue-like behavior toward anesthetized conspecifics—without any prior training or external rewards. The study, published in ...