Emotion

Such technology has already been used successfully, and studies have shown that it can work to predict crime with up to 90% accuracy

A year has passed since the tragedy at Tempe which scarred our collective soul. Like others investigative initiatives before it, the parliamentary committee assembled to probe the deadly train crash expended itself on public relations stunts; its hollow proceedings were an insult to the families of the victims and to the public as a whole, who demand answers.

The electronic music producer and avid experimenter (not to mention PhD of computational biology) Max Cooper is no stranger to our shores, as his IDM tunes resonate with Greeks.

"Upset" is perhaps the most apt and mild description of the emotion evoked by Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues' play "Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists: in the few days it has been staged in Athens by the Onassis Foundation. The controversial work, set in a dystopian future, raises the question of whether it is right to break the laws of democracy in order to defend it.

Oral contraceptives are commonly used by more than 150 million women globally, with combined oral contraceptives (COCs) being the most prevalent variety. These synthetic hormones have been shown to influence the brain network responsible for processing fear.

Every major tragedy in Greece is met with a lot of dust and noise. Briefly. Then the matter vanishes. The course of justice is desperately slow. Catharsis takes so long in coming, the matter is forgotten or loses its urgency. 

It is a symptom of a phenomenon known as ‘news fatigue’

There is a class of words that can help accurately predict whether someone is suffering from depression

Octopuses are capable of some remarkably complex behavior, including interpreting potentially physical and emotional pain

Experts tell us that the strongest emotion we feel as humans is fear, which we are unable to process individually. This leads to the belief that only an all-powerful institution, namely the state, can ensure the survival of a society and its citizens when they are faced with mortal peril, like the current coronavirus crisis.