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Everyone claims at one point to have knowledge of something they have no knowledge of. But why? It’s all about who you perceive yourself to be that dictates your feigned expertise.
While many people believe sugar makes kids hyperactive, this theory has long been debunked by research. However researchers are only just beginning to understand the complex relationship between glucose and learning.
How much homework should students do each night? One group of researcher says 70 minutes strikes the perfect balance.
Cancer’s scars aren’t just physical. Sufferers and survivors alike must battle on a separate front to combat the effects of depression and mental illness.
Two recent examples from The New York Times, one from a columnist and one in an editorial, illustrate the danger of news media coverage of risk that is alarmist, incomplete, and inaccurate.
Will a law regulating the BMI of models help change an industry obsessed with beauty and unhealthy weight ideals? France thinks it might.
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created the most high-tech solution to teenage anxiety yet: a treatment for acne that uses a combination of ultrasound, gold-covered nanoparticles, and lasers.
Researchers think they may have found a way to make people more empathetic. Perhaps one day in the future we’ll be able to prescribe “kindness” pills.
Director Shiho Fukada sheds light on a growing problem in Japan, internet café refugees. For most temporary workers, a stall in one of these net cafés is all they can afford.
A new sensor device, developed by a Stanford Ph.D. student, promises to change the way students, educators, and science enthusiasts explore the world — from elementary school to the Ph.D. lab and beyond.
Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, resulting from the communication of information across all its regions and cannot be reduced to something residing in specific areas.
The New Orleans-based startup Earth Prime seeks to harness the powers of humans, technology, and the environment in order to increase access to fresh vegetables.
In an announcement earlier this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a range of innovative new features to be tested this summer, including the much talked-about self-drive mode.
Most Europeans will be afforded at least a partial view of the eclipse. For everyone else, digital technology has got you covered.
The dangers of texting and driving are well-known, but teens need to understand that engaging in any distractions while driving poses risks.
Who has the best chance of success for reaching Mars by 2030? Government-funded programs or private organizations?
Cooking at home is healthier than eating out. But a recent study contests this assertion, saying it all depends on where you’re getting your recipes.
A major psychology journal has banned the use of the near-universally adopted practice of significance testing, citing recent evidence of the technique’s unreliability. What will be the fallout for psychology as a field?
A new study concludes that some measures of intelligence peak much later in life than previously thought, like being able to accurately judge others’ emotions, explaining why we often think of older people as wiser.
It’s widely thought that there’s an age when you’re at your mental prime, and then begin the decline. Not so, according to researchers. Different ages means reaching new peaks in your mental abilities.
You’re worth sticking up for.
Researchers think our adverse reactions to being lonely are nature’s way of motivating us to find a social group in order to survive.
Your sleep-type may have some bearing on your tendencies to be punctual (or not). Morning people tend to be on time more than night owls, according to researchers.
Depression alters people’s perceptions of how things feel. But time, which may seem like such a static thing, feels different to people with depression — it feels slower.
An electric car built specifically for wheelchair users aims to help them be more independent.
Researcher found putting fruit flies on a time-restricted diet helped them become healthier; maybe it could do the same for humans.
Happy Pi Day! We’ve compiled some fun facts from across the internet in commemoration of 3.14.15. And just in case you’re curious, the world’s most famous irrational number boasts a “1” as its millionth digit.
The amount of salt used on Boston roads this past winter weighed more than the equivalent of over 20,000 elephants. Considering that about 84 percent of road salt makes it into our water, that’s a whole lot of pollution in only one season.