In a world where the boundary between personal and public life is increasingly blurred, the fields of celebrity worship and quasi social relationships have become fascinating topics in psychological ...

Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote "sailing on the sea proves that motion disorders the body." In fact, the ...

Here’s what’s really happening—and how astrology became a modern phenomenon. Mercury is seen in an image taken by the NASA MESSENGER probe from a distance of about 17,000 miles.

Perilous landscape: California’s 250-year struggle to prepare for natural disasters While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

Loneliness is a uniquely modern phenomenon, and in some sense did not exist before the 19th century. The word rarely appears in English earlier than that, and its modern meaning as a feeling of ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new.

Potter the phenomenon doesn't compare for suspense, but like the wizard's tale, it is unique and extraordinary and well placed in tradition. Like Star Wars and Star Trek, it is the story of how a ...

The phenomenon that unsatisfying things are the most addictive has been branded the "Dorito Theory," and can be applied to many bad behaviors. PhotoPlus+ - stock.adobe.com It’s all just empty ...