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Time for half-year resolutions?

If your good intentions from a few months ago haven’t led to much, take note. A psychologist tells us what we can learn from studies on willpower.

Large platters hold monkey meat that has been cooked. Several women stand behind the platters.

Food & Environment

In defense of wild meat’s place at the table

Sustainable and safe consumption of wildlife is possible, and important for those who depend on it, says a conservation researcher

A conceptual illustration shows a young girl with dark hair and an unhappy expression. In the green background are a sea of eyes that seem to be staring at her.

The Mind

Inside the adolescent brain

This challenging phase of life may get a bad rap, but it’s also full of opportunity. A developmental neuroscientist shares what she’s learned from studies on young people’s risk-taking behavior, reasoning and more.

Photograph of a row of skeletons in a trench.

Health & Disease

Profiling the perpetrators of past plagues

The ancient pathogens in old graves are as dead as the people they once infected. Still, they tell a vivid tale.

Still photograph from the 2015 movie The Revenant. Frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brandishing a rifle and shouting in fury, beneath trees.

The Mind

Revenge is bittersweet at best

Research is starting to reveal how the urge for vengeance may have evolved, when it can be useful and what could prevent the violence it can provoke

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Q&A

Time for half-year resolutions?

In defense of wild meat’s place at the table

Inside the adolescent brain

Profiling the perpetrators of past plagues

Revenge is bittersweet at best

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