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Being trained by evolution to avoid confronting your own mortality, your brain may register a feeling of terror to read news articles about death. We have a strong aversion to our fragility.
Harvard researcher Elizabeth Spelke studies the minds of babies to better understand how we think and behave as adults. She believes language is the key to our creative processes.
Scientific research suggests that empathy works more strongly on the non-religious to motivate generous behavior. Religious people are guided more by doctrine and community.
Scientists have determined that whether or not you like the smell of pork, a large component of how it tastes, is determined by a gene in your DNA. There is a genetic link to the food we like.
Two previously blind British patients have had partial vision restored by a microchip implanted behind their retinas, indicating to the brain that the eye is receiving light.
Forget marathons, people. The first 20 minutes of exercise confer all its essential health benefits. Fitness researcher Gretchen Reynolds says you can do anything to get your body moving.
Using nanotechnology, medical researchers have successfully cloaked anti-cancer drugs so they do not affect the body's healthy cells. Some patients' tumors have shrunk greatly during treatment.
By creating video games that allow non-professionals to diagnosis diseases like malaria, health professionals can reliably turn to the public to help them save time—and lives.
The fact that contraception is back on the national agenda astounds sex therapist Marty Klein. Yet the struggle for humane sex laws is also about our struggle for democracy.
Writers invest their very lives in their work, so who should they turn to when a manuscript is finished? Increasingly, literary agents are taking the place of publishing house editors.
Emer O'Toole has some advice for preparing women for the summer months. The short story writer sprung into (in)action when she saw how ingrained many gender roles had become.
While literature has been criticized as a corrupting influence at different points in history, recent research suggests that works of fiction draw out the empathy in us, encouraging justice.
Perhaps the world's most modern instrument, engineers and DJs behind the Reactable are sharing their tracks' layers to make remixing free and easy to anyone who wants to try.
British scientists have created artificial muscles that mimic the actual muscle of squids, helping researchers create active-camouflage clothing and smart skin to regulate our temperature.
While many businesses are predicting big money from Big Data, Peter Fader thinks that today's data analysis tools serve us quite well. There is actually little to gain with more data.
Not fearing this age's breakneck technological change, two of the nation's most prestigious universities are set to offer their classes to anyone in the world with an Internet connection.
A new company has been launched with the specific purpose of mining near-Earth asteroids for precious metals. Without massive technological advancement, however, the economics won't work.
If you have an idea for a new technology company, more firms are offering start up money in exchange for a slice of ownership. Given their success, some say they may replace MBAs.
By modifying DNA to pick up on slight chemical variations, and attaching the DNA to carbon nanotubes, scientists want to create an electronic nose that can identify cancers in the body.
Someday soon you may be able to create replicas of 3D objects by taking their photo and feeding the data to your at-home printer. Will that be the end of the manufacturing-based economy?