Throughout history, female desire has been portrayed as one of the most destabilizing and dangerous forces. It caused Cleopatra to throw away her kingdom for an ill-fated dalliance with Marc Antony.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The laws of chemistry get pushed to the limits in Jenny Bergner’s astrochemistry lab at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Suspicious of evolution-based assumptions about female desire—such as the views that women prefer monogamy and that women find emotional connections key to physical satisfaction—Bergner (The Other ...

In “The Mind and the Moon,” Daniel Bergner explores how much we know — and how much we don’t — about mental health. Credit...Miguel Porlan Supported by By Christine Kenneally When you purchase an ...

The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches, by Daniel Bergner (Ecco, 320 pp., $28.99) The specter of mental illness haunts America. A tourist ...