There is growing evidence that physical activity may be central to happiness across a person's lifespan. A 2020 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health measured physical activity and happine…

Of his origami-engineered designs, Hagiwara is perhaps most satisfied with his revolutionary foldable plastic drinking bottles. Conceptualized in four short years, Hagiwara’s novel solution is both flexible and portable. People can now fol…

Hagiwara, who started out as a collision researcher, first experimented with origami techniques decades ago when he was studying ways to improve shock absorption systems. Success arrived in 2009 when his patented shock absorbers increased …

In a laboratory at Meiji University, Ichiro Hagiwara, a pioneer in origami engineering, has labored to build a printer prototype that potentially holds the key to the mass production of origami-engineered structures. Developed over eight y…

"The risk of serial killers and the risk of shark attacks are both extraordinarily low, and these risks have generally gone down over time. But people don't tend to perceive it that way," Bader said.Like they do with crime, people get most…

"A lot of the work that my colleagues and I have done is about why people tend to have fears about things which are not actually, in all great likelihood, going to be something that they experience. And why their fears are much lower in te…

Bader and his colleagues study fear — specifically, they investigate what kinds of crimes Americans fear most. The researchers have found that the more familiar a person is with the risk of becoming a victim of a certain crime, the less li…

If you're not really afraid of sharks, it might be because the risk they pose to you is familiar, Ropeik said. For example, if you live in Florida, where most shark attacks in the United States occur, then you might not be as fearful of th…