Creativity feels great — until tomorrow
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Jun-2026 11:15 ET (19-Jun-2026 15:15 GMT/UTC)
A newly published daily-diary study has identified a surprising pattern among professional creatives: After days with higher creative engagement, creative practitioners reported more negative emotions the next day — even though creativity improved well-being in the moment. The authors call this next day dip a “creative hangover.”
A team of scientists led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track the Earth’s greenness – a key indicator of vegetation health and activity – by calculating its centre of mass.
Teens who are lonely and those who experience conflict in their home life are more likely to act aggressively toward peers or become victims themselves. These are some of the findings in a new University of California, Davis, study that creates a detailed picture of children’s social lives by identifying patterns and predictors of adolescent social health.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $80 million grant to continue research into the mysteries of exceptional longevity. The grant renews support for the Long Life Family Study, a long-running, international investigation of multiple generations of families with unusually high numbers of individuals who have lived much longer than statistical models predict, including some to age 100 and beyond.