When a bottleneck makes a task hard or slow, it often leads to overthinking, procrastination, and emotional stress. Sometimes ...

"While stress can’t be stopped, parents can prevent it from rubbing off on their kids," write Juli Fraga and Hilary Jacobs ...

What is word stress and how do we use it? In words with more than one syllable, there’s usually at least one syllable that sounds clearer or more obvious. Maybe it’s stronger, louder or higher. For ...

A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results ...

When faced with danger, animals have to react fast. Heart rates climb, muscles tense, and the body prepares to fight or flee. At the same time, less urgent activities like eating get put on hold.

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides evidence that chronic stress triggers the release of immune cells from bone marrow in the skull, which then travel to the protective layers ...

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile nestlings synchronizing their hatching and pushing the parent to dig the nest, ...

From the outside, you might look as though you have everything under control, but your body will be telling a different story. Here are the less obvious signs you’re under too much stress – and how to ...