What if the moments that make us laugh or quietly restore our faith in people are also the ones science says matter most?

I’ve always paid close attention to the news. Indeed, I’ve come to understand my engagement with what the Washington Post’s Phil Graham called “the rough first draft of history” as a token of my ...

Compassion and empathy have a unique ability to brighten difficult moments and strengthen the connections we share with one another. Even when life gets hard, these small acts of kindness often leave ...

Compassion is not empathy, though compassion depends upon empathy. Whereas empathy is the ability to take another’s perspective—cognitive and/or emotional—compassion is the motivation to alleviate ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a two-day virtual workshop that explored the biological mechanisms of empathy and compassion. Workshop participants examined the ...

Researchers are exploring what epidemiology—the science of how disease spreads—might teach us about spreading compassion.

In 1859, Charles Darwin unveiled a theory of Evolution that shook the scientific world: the survival of the fittest, where nature thrives on ruthless competition and efficiency. This dog-eat-dog ...

Rohan D'Souza is currently Chief Product Officer of Olive AI — leading the charge on building the Internet of Healthcare. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, burnout among healthcare workers was well ...