Scratch-off tickets are big money for state-run lotteries. Is it the promise of winning big that keeps players in the game? Or is there something else happening in the brain? NOVA is available to ...

Mosquito bites are itchy and we tend to scratch itchy things. The scratching feels good in the short term but tends to hasten and exacerbate swelling and inflammation. This leads to more scratching ...

Studies show that scratching overrides itch signals and engages pain-modulating regions in the brain, creating a sense of ...

A new study has found that there are three distinct peaks, when cognitive decline is more evident in all of us Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s ...

I remember it well: our dark winter of itch when the kids were small. It started with a note sent home—years before the pandemic—that my child had been exposed, not to a deadly virus but to lice.

There are a lot of videos in the “satisfying video” genre of internet content. There are pimple-popping videos and even videos of cow hoof-trimming. And then there’s a whole slew of ASMR videos, which ...

There are a number of ways to stop scratching, from medicines to mental tricks. By Elizabeth Passarella I’m one of the unfortunate souls who, for reasons still only loosely explained by science, seems ...

Maths brain teasers are an excellent way to enhance your cognitive abilities and give your brain a good workout. Solving ...