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The U.S. is in the midst of a racial reckoning. The COVID-19 pandemic, which took a particularly heavy toll on Black communities, turned a harsh spotlight on long-standing health disparities that the public could no longer overlook.

With just weeks to go for the new year, global wellness experts ponder topics from climate migration to stress management and communing with nature

Never underestimate the intellectual power of a kid. It is them who oftentimes come up with the most ingenious ways to be lazy, mischievous, or downright smart. The post 44 Times Kids Demonstrated Out-Of-The-Box Thinking In The Funniest Ways first appeared on Bored Panda.

Interested? Step one: Put down the smartphone.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionise the way we diagnose and treat illness. It could be particularly helpful for depression because it could make more accurate diagnoses and determine which treatments are more likely to work.

It’s one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get by on tiny brains, and don’t seem to miss the extra brain cells (neurons).

A new study finds that prolonged exposure to ketamines leads to structural changes in the brain's dopamine system, at least in mice.

After many tries, new efforts may have successfully made computing more brain-like by using (lab-grown) human brain tissue. The post “Things Are About To Get Weird”: Scientists Use Human Brain Cells On Chip, It Can Now Do Simple Math first appeared on Bored Panda.

Remote workers can form the same relationship virtually as they can in person, but employers need to make space for that to happen.