NEW YORK — Lauren Click founded a nonprofit a few years ago offering free composting education to schools around the country. Today, 112 schools participate, yet she can’t get her boyfriend to ...

A high school teacher gives his students projects that offer opportunities to help others. He finds these projects generate a ...

Brandon Jay and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, created Altadena Musicians to help those who may have lost their beloved musical ...

Our bodies age at different rates, sometimes closely correlated to the years we've spent alive, and sometimes less so. A new study links another factor to the speed at which our brains age: how much ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. ‍Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too narrowly — ...

This post was written by Kübra Fethiye Karataş, MSc, with edits from Jo Cutler, Ph.D. Many of the ways we help require effort Source: Blue Bird / Pexels At the heart of motivation is a simple question ...

Helping others is good for you. That’s not cliche, that’s science. Two years ago, Harvard researchers published a study about the “Helper’s High,” showing how your brain churns up a burst of the ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too ...

Have you ever met someone and immediately liked them? Why such a good first impression? Afterward you realized: She was interested in you. She genuinely liked hearing about the bits and pieces of who ...