Makai Elías Calles

For most of human history, reading was something done out loud. Then we learned to make the voice ...

Millions of people grew up thinking their tonsils were useless lumps of tissue. Surgeons remove them from half ...

Scientists asked more than 40,000 adults a very simple, straightforward yes-or-no question about their lives. Seven years later, ...

There's a village in the mountains of southern China where living past 100 is unusually common. Researchers spent ...

The boundaries we have drawn around perception and awareness may be narrower than we thought.

Ten minutes of journaling changes what shows up on a brain scan. Researchers have studied this for 40 ...

The smartest person in the room is usually not the one who wins. Researchers wanted to know why, ...

A cardiologist set out to measure the effects of music on the human body, but the strongest finding ...

We generally believe a mind requires a brain. But plants might give us the best reason to doubt ...

There's one emotion that does more for your body than any other. It's not joy. It's not love. ...

Awe leaves a detectable mark in your blood. It's linked to reduced inflammation, a calmer stress response, and ...

You need to stop scrolling. The problem is that many of us simply can't. The next thing is ...

Join host and health reporter Makai Allbert as he discovers what's really going on in those moments between ...

A strange pattern has been documented for decades. Young children, usually between the ages of 2 and 4, ...

Helping others has tangible effects on your body, influencing even which genes are activated or deactivated. Follow the ...

Turns out your brain has opinions about how you read.

Your metabolism is supposed to respond to what's in your stomach, right? But when researchers tested that idea ...

Some children make strange claims. They describe people they've never met. Places they've never visited. In some cases, ...

What if your metabolism is influenced not only by what you eat, but also by what you believe? ...

*** “Final Hours: Is Death Really the End?” will premiere here at 6 p.m. EST on Wednesday, June ...

Is listening to a book the same as reading one? It's the kind of question that sounds like ...

Coming back from death is a real life-changer.

Half of American adults are lonely, which poses health risks that researchers compare to smoking 15 cigarettes a ...

I sit down with Michelle Manu, a Native Hawaiian martial artist and legal scholar, to explore what traditional ...

People who return from death don't just believe differently, they live differently, and with a change that rarely ...

I had already learned the first rule of early rising: Morning you is a different version than the ...

Allen Woodman began training in martial arts in Japan when he was 4 years old. Now, after 55 ...