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By measuring how women’s brains respond to images of food and sex, researchers may be able to predict whether the women are set for weight gain or sexual activity in the months ahead. 

A new smartphone accessory which creates a digital image of medical test results is helping to build a new global database of disease information that will help prevent future epidemics. 

The adage that children raised in rough households grow up fast has some fresh genetic evidence to support it, say Duke researchers who examined age markers in children’s DNA.

Researchers at Northwestern University have decoded the brain’s electrical signals to bypass injured spinal cords and reanimate limbs that no longer receive stimulation from the brain. 

A Polish-born gynecologist claims he has found the biological source of the female orgasm. Known as the G-spot, the anatomical mystery has legendary powers of sexual stimulation. 

People who are more optimistic, hopeful and satisfied with their lives are less likely to have heart problems, says a new Harvard meta-analysis that has aggregated over 200 independent studies. 

New psychological research shows that humility is strongly associated with a host of positive virtues, including maintaining friendships, having good work habits and being generous. 

Here are some ways to make your idea into a full blown movement. Get the public involved early and often, and make advertising campaigns directed at civic organizations. 

Scientists believe that words which are less familiar to us exert less of an emotive pull, allowing our minds to evaluate a decision on more rational terms. Pues hablas español?

Every individual has a responsibility to protect themselves against illegal government surveillance, says Jacob Appelbaum, if not for yourself, then for those you associate with. 

We’re dreaming of the days when Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller. Why are today’s celebrities associated with mediocre intelligence and a modicum of moral sensibility? 

A microchip equipped with 20 gel posts can perform 20 genetic tests using just one drop of blood. It may be the advance the new era of personalized medicine has been waiting for. 

Learning how to leverage the advances of a failed business to create a new product has proven essential to many of the world’s most successful companies. It helps in raising funds, too.

While Nevada wants to make self-driving cars identifiable to human drivers, the truth is that smart cars have more to be worried about by putting themselves on the road with us. 

That’s the bold prediction of Kristian Hammond, an executive at Narrative Science, a company that translates data into natural language. He predicts a robot will win the Pulitzer in five years.

Despite predictions to the contrary, Intel has developed a new computer chip which fits more transistors into a smaller space. Computer power is still looking set to increase into the future. 

While scientists jump to answer this notoriously difficult question, scientific observation is not well suited to finding the cosmic will that the question implies. This stumper is better left alone.

While talk of mining near-Earth asteroids has concentrated on metals like gold and platinum, the real treasure may be mining water and using its hydrogen to propel ambitious space missions. 

Throughout the history of our solar system, the sun’s proximity to exploding supernovae has had an important influence on the development of life on Earth, says a new study out of Denmark. 

The private space company Sierra Nevada has designed a spacecraft to take the place of NASA’s recently retired shuttles, carrying astronauts to the ISS with greater efficiency. 

A new pair of buildings opened at NASA’s Ames Research Center use technology and design to create as much energy as they use, modeling what manned bases on other planets will look like. 

To make a resume for how today’s bosses read them—quickly and mercilessly—you’ll need to learn about white space, dumb algorithms and lingerie. You should drop your photo, too.

Is there something about rapid technological change that necessitates bold cultural shifts? If so, that might explain why so many Internet companies have run afoul of regulation. 

Are digital devices ruining our ability to have deep and meaningful conversations, emphasizing desperate and superficial connections instead? How can we sustain healthy relationships? 

To what extent should our desire for Internet freedom allow the industry to operate outside of laws that are meant to protect the public good. Whose responsibility is it to protect children? 

If Google’s lobbying spree continues, it will outspend all the tobacco companies and major banks. And with new cyber security bills before Congress, the fight for Internet freedom remains. 

The French know a thing or two about cooking food so might they better understand how to eat it, too? Their midday lunch breaks make people more sociable and more productive. 

New draft guidelines drawn up by the German government say that future military missions should not be focused on spreading Western conceptions of democracy

The US is now the world’s leading producer of natural gas but can the fuel be harvested in an environmentally sustainable way? And can we build the needed infrastructure fast enough?

Technological change is quickly arriving which will transform society on a scale similar to England’s textile mills and Ford’s production line, if governments allow the changes to occur.