As a lifelong academic and university denizen, I am chagrined that only this year I learned that Al Qarawiyyin, founded in 859 CE in Fes, is the world’s oldest continuously running university. Just as ...

Flowers can only make you happy by triggering your happy brain chemicals. Here’s how they do that: Dopamine Dopamine is triggered by the expectation of a reward. Flowers were a huge reward signal in ...

Arousal - how alert or excited one feel - is a basic part of emotions, along with whether those emotions are positive or negative. Scientists still don’t fully understand how the brain creates these ...