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A new study addresses the question, while also raising even more questions.
For older adults, playing video games isn't just a way for older adults to keep in touch with the younger generation — it might be also be a way to stay in touch with memory itself.
100,000 years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder. Noël Wells on art, power, and our super dark times.
Is "alloparenting" the end of family as we know it?
Optical computers would be extremely fast, more energy efficient, and could store far more information than electronic ones.
Strong performance has an enormous impact on an organization’s viability — it boils down to a team of highly effective, dedicated workers who can complete tasks quickly and efficiently.
Just because it isn’t Thanksgiving anymore doesn’t mean we don’t have an entire Universe to be thankful for. Every day, we have a choice whether we take our lives, our existence, […]
UC Berkeley researchers create a robot that learns by playing and can predict the future of its actions.
How far back in time would you need to travel to find a common human ancestor of people living today? The answer is surprisingly recent.
Knowing how fat responds to when we eat could lead to better weight loss programs.
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
When a 'Rick and Morty' fan recently tweeted at Dan Harmon asking how to deal with depression, it didn’t take him long to reply.
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What are the true motivations of people who cheat, and why do even happy spouses do it?
In 1944, the economist, physicist, mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann published a book that became a sensation, at least among mathematicians – Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. […]
Summary Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, discusses the necessity of making time for yourself and […]
Research points to many social-cognitive, emotional, behavioral and biological benefits that marriage seems to bestow on its participants.
Science can do a whole lot of things, but proving a scientific theory is still an impossibility. You’ve heard of our greatest scientific theories: the theory of evolution, the Big […]
Documentary offers a surprisingly simple solution to improving medical care.
A new study of Minnesota-based marathon runners calls into question how heart-healthy endurance running is.
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There are a lot of tough conversations that stand between where America is now and "liberty and justice for all," says Van Jones.