You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress can spread around, particularly to your loved ones.
With Ben Franklin's “old year” approach, perhaps you can sidestep the inevitable challenges that come with traditional New Year’s resolutions and achieve lasting, positive changes.
Looking back at the year’s top 10 most popular stories, it’s clear that you, dear readers, were hungry for hopeful stories. We’re inspired by your willingness to learn—about transformative justice, the roots of modern food movements, and the possibility of an ecological civilization.
As they committed to doing last April, on the occasion of the 35th commemoration of the Chernobyl accident, the Swiss-based company Exlterra has reported spectacular results after one year of decontamination.
Epidemiologist and public health researcher Melissa Hawkins explains the way researchers calculate how well a vaccine prevents disease, what influences these numbers and how Omicron is changing things.
Many people have experienced reductions in stress, pain and anxiety and sometimes even euphoria after exercise. What’s behind this so-called “runner’s high”? New research on the neuroscience of exercise may surprise you.
As someone with an eating disorder history, the holidays, which should be joyful and exciting, can be awkward—and even destructive—as the same problems present themselves year after year: We’re expected to spend time with family members who can be jarring.
Minding your diet is easier said than done. It always helps to have a little reminder of how certain foods can affect your skin health. Our list can help with that.
David Milarch leads Archangel Ancient Tree Archive towards his vision of replanting Earth with the genetics of the world’s remaining ancient forests. 98% of old growth forests in the United States are gone, with only 2% of our “life savings” left.
The country's prime minister has agreed to roll back laws that threatened to corporatize agriculture, jeopardizing the food security of more than 800 million people and further enriching the ultra-rich.
As with any venue, parents might be concerned about what dangers lurk on the internet. Here are five tips on how parents can encourage their children to adopt safer online behavior beyond using spyware or computer surveillance.
As winter begins and the holidays are in full swing, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered another worrying phase. Increasing rates of infections have left many people unsure about their holiday plans.
People have used honey for thousands of years for wound healing. While we now have other very effective wound-healing options, honey may still be good for healing certain wounds.
As women, we are fortunate to have a monthly cycling of hormones, which ends (or begins) with the physical and emotional catharsis of menstruation. You may at first find this positive contextualization difficult conceive.
While wintertime can certainly be jolly and very festive, suffering from the winter blues is also quite common. If you are feeling the winter blues, here are seven helpful tips to make yourself feel better.
Urgent opposition testimony is needed this week to prevent the licensing of Reiki, qigong and more in Massachusetts. This unnecessary licensure legislation will disrupt an already thriving and well-established industry in Massachusetts.
Polarity forces may be the key to problems, but they are also key healing tools. They are centered in a chakra, but can also be attached to physical organs, systems, or cells, or to auric fields. They can attach to sources either helpful or harmful, and even to viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
The simple act of staring at a deep-red or near infrared light source for about three minutes was found to be enough to improve color vision in those suffering from failing eyesight.
One of the things I learned over the years as a lawyer and later as a professor specializing in employment law is that timing and preparation matter when it comes to quitting a job.
Attempting to keep up with the high demand for inexpensive produce, agricultural workers are using dangerous pesticides that endanger their health and the well-being of their communities. One such weed-killer is paraquat.
As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon found herself addicted, spending five hours a day on the apps, mostly Instagram.
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