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By analyzing the books, films, and organizations you've Liked on Facebook, computers can create a more accurate picture of your identity than your friends, family, or even your spouse can.
Asking thirty-six specific questions plus four minutes of sustained eye contact is a recipe for falling in love, or at least creating intimacy among complete strangers.
Peter Thiel, whose funding helped pioneer Paypal and Facebook, is now investing in the budding marijuana industry with his venture capital firm Founders Fund.
Checking your email too often could be stressing you out, even if you don't feel like your inbox plays a significant role in your wellbeing.
Racism causes physiological as well as psychological harm, and babies of pregnant mothers experience those harms in utero, according to research recently completed in New Zealand.
Annual checkups cost the nation billions while yielding virtually no health benefits, argues Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
When parents speak to their infants in the first year of life, it helps stimulate baby cognition in ways that increase the likelihood of future success.
Plummeting economic prospects for working-class Americans have resulted in an epidemic of unstable interpersonal relationships, according to Andrew Cherlin, a scholar at Johns Hopkins University.
Concerns over the amount of carbon dioxide released by drilling for natural gas could be eased by a new material created from inexpensive asphalt, the same substance used to pave roads.
Taking a nap almost always beats a cup of coffee, according to sleep researchers, because a nap restores worn out synapse connections while coffee just pushes them to perform longer.
Student achievement is higher in classrooms where digital technology delivers lectures and grades assignments.
Different people have very different dreams, but even across widely different cultures, the subjects we dream about are remarkably similar—and mostly very disturbing.
Sensors inside cars could soon monitor drivers for signs of distraction or tiredness, alerting them before an accident occurs as a result.
The more out of control a couple's wedding budget grows, the shorter their marriage will tend to last, according to a new study by two Emory University economics professors.
Airlines make a lot of money by creating miserable flying accommodations and then charging customers "convenience fees" to avoid them.
While the symptoms of depression are marked by changes in the brain, the cause of the disease may ultimately lie in the body.
When eating a vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free diet becomes a lifestyle, the medicinal benefits may outpace those offered by strong prescription painkillers.
The greatest difference in opinion over abortion rights exists between women at opposite ends of the political spectrum, not between men and women as is often supposed in popular culture.
Engineers at the University of Montana are working to mitigate the impact of roads on wildlife by building overpasses and underpasses that give animals the right of way.
To avoid increased scrutiny at airports, the CIA recommends its covert operatives have simple and plausible responses to the questions most frequently asked at airport screenings.