For most of recorded history, the question of whether one’s work should feel meaningful barely existed as a concept. Labor was survival. Today, in one of the most documented paradoxes of modern prosperity, hundreds of millions of people have economically secure jobs and report feeling profoundly disengaged from them. The question of why and whether science offers any remedy h...

A series of experiments comparing how people and large language models respond to the same judgment tasks found that the two groups often reach similar conclusions but through processes that differ in a f...

A study conducted in a Boston concert hall found that listeners’ brain waves aligned more closely with musical rhythms during live violin performances than during matched recordings. The strength of this alignment also tracked how much pleasure and engagement participants reported.

The persistence of live music attendance despite the easy availability of high-qualit...

The study found that human penile innervation develops in distinct fetal stages and shows region-specific patterns in adults, with the frenular delta the triangular ventral area where the glans meets the shaft containing higher densities of nerve bundles and sensory corpuscles than other regions, including the glans.

Researchers conducted the work t...

A Russian medical team has documented the first recorded case of monochorionic quadruplet girls in the country’s medical history.

The four identical female infants, born from a single fertilized ovum and sharing one placenta, were delivered by planned cesarean section at 32 weeks’ gestation. Their birth weights were 1,360 g, 1,400 g, 1,570 g and 1,6...