A conversation with the British author and activist.

Nancy Koehn, historian at Harvard Business School, thinks it’s a generation that, before this recession, had not experienced failure.

The attempted destruction of North West Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit by suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah has belatedly shone a spotlight on Yemen, the country where the terrorist allegedly […]

How are large groups of animals capable of astonishingly coordinated behavior? Do human crowds behave according to similar logic? This week Princeton evolutionary biologist Iain Couzin, a specialist in self-organized pattern […]

It's been a year since I last redesigned my personal blog. This time around, I've been thinking of making more substantial changes -- possibly even getting a new blog host. […]

In some fields, the worst type of encouragement may be to doggedly stick with projects until their completion.

There are everyday steps you can take—from anti-inflammatory drugs to a Mediterranean diet—that can reduce your chances of developing the disease.

Perhaps the biggest misconception about Alzheimer’s is that the disease is entirely genetically inherited and is hence unpreventable. As the UCLA psychiatrist explains, there are a variety of emerging methods […]

The myriad centers for treating Internet and video game "addiction" opening up across Asia meet a legitimate, clinical need because a craving for technology acts upon the brain in the […]

In an age of cell phones, PDAs, and computers, the intense mental stress of continually paying only partial attention may be decreasing our memory capacity.

Like everything else in our body, memory, particularly short-term recall, performs worse with age; luckily the best way to stay sharp is also the most fun.

There are three mental tricks we can employ to help us easily recall everything from the most vital information to where we put our keys. A UCLA psychiatrist and memory expert explains.

A conversation with the professor of psychiatry and aging at the UCLA School of Medicine

Supporters of the Iranian Government have used the grave of Neda Soltan, the young woman killed during protests in June who became a symbol of opposition, as target practise.

Yemen insisted yesterday that it could handle its own security challenges without direct intervention from foreign powers “pointedly warning” the US to keep its troops out.

New research has found that there is an increased presence and severity of coronary artery plaques in men infected with HIV.

Two defense contractors have been charged with shooting and killing two Afghan citizens in Kabul and wounding a third, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Officials are warning that the World Cup in South Africa could be a public health disaster with half the nation’s prostitutes carrying HIV and half a million football fans expected in the region.

More than 200 former child soldiers have been sent home from Nepal after being disqualified for being recruited after the ceasefire code of conduct was signed in May 2006.

Australian sheep farmer Peter Spencer is entering his 47th day on hunger strike after the government rendered his livelihood useless “in the name of combating climate change.”