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Most people think of happiness as a feeling: something that arrives when conditions are right and fades when they’re not. But the last decade of psychological science tells a different story.

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Since the diagnosis, the Hamiltons have watched as it gets harder and harder for Owen to walk, the muscular dystrophy ...

Seven Democrats are on the ballot in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District primary election. They are Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs ...

Patricia Hajabakiga's story begins long before Rwanda's liberation of 1994. Born in 1956 in Nyanza District, Hajabakiga's earliest memories are marked not by stability, but by displacement, rupture, ...

A Melbourne father whose daughter was run over and killed at a city rave has revealed his family’s grief has been worsened by ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...