Recognizing the ways expectations shape experience, we can engage in practices that try to train and activate the hidden prediction machinery in ways that will help us feel better. Andy Clark is a ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...