This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

The HBR Playbook on overcoming change fatigue and positioning your people for agility. by Ania W. Masinter The amount and pace of organizational change today is staggering. Gartner research found that ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...

Relying on stereotypes and obvious culture-clash jokes, the film imagines estranged relatives trying to put aside past differences. Before he goes, Kes wants to settle at least one war: the one raging ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

The origins of “Houston, we have a problem” rest with the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission in 1970. For decades since, the phrase has been used to signify a downturn for all manner of misfortune: ...

The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. But what is it, why is it so hard to solve and is the sci-fi series of the same name really possible ...