Articles by Maggie Penman
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why youre there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys?
These memory lapses arent unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published th�...
First responders who helped with rescue and recovery at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, were exposed to high levels of trauma, yet some of them were less likely to develop long-term stress �...
Americans take fewer vacations than we used to, and many people dont have paid time off. That means its important to savor the vacations we do take.
But there are common missteps people make on vac�...
Rob P. sits in his garage scrubbing a broken shifter on an old bicycle. Its his second hour scouring it, trying to free it from the gummed-up grease preventing it from changing gears.
The shifter wo�...
One summer several years ago, Harry Creffield got a dream job acting in a play in Cornwall, a vacation destination on Englands southern coast. The actor and comedian was given free accommodations and�...
At any bus stop or while waiting in line, most people will have their heads down looking at their phones. Recent research found that many people check their phones at least 50 times per day. But stud�...
The human brain hasfour distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear�...
The first time Mesfin Yana Dollarassisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying.
He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in �...