Life and business strategist Tony Robbins warns how digital isolation is affecting human connection and shares how he is ...

Norwood, Mass —We all know the USB port: it's fast, small, well supported, inexpensive, and ubiquitous (have you even seen a serial port lately on a PC?). But it has one glaring problem, which becomes ...

Many people feel isolated: In fact, there’s a loneliness epidemic. In the 1980s, social psychologists Daniel Perlman and Letitia Anne Peplau described loneliness as "a discrepancy between one’s ...

A team at Harvard studying the social behavior of mice found that the brain treats isolation and loneliness in much the same way it processes hunger or thirst. Within the hypothalamus, the brain’s hub ...

Social isolation kills. It increases your risk of death by 30% — roughly the same as smoking cigarettes and much worse than factors such as obesity and sedentary living.

United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently called loneliness an epidemic and issued a public health advisory on the healing effects of social connection and community. The report warned of ...

Midland native Eric Eichhorn debuts “Ogallala,” a darkly funny road-trip novel exploring connection, isolation, and unlikely ...

Marko Lončar’s group at SEAS builds isolator in a lithium niobate-based optical chip. Micrograph of electro-optic isolator chip on thin-film lithium niobate. An optical isolator created at the Harvard ...