While money can't ultimately buy happiness, it does provide us with little bursts of good feeling, and the duration of that good feeling can vary depending on what kind of purchases we make.

A study completed at Cornell University found that adults who don't eat breakfast tend not to overcompensate by eating larger or unhealthier meals during the day. 

At the end of the day, the to-do list becomes a record of things you didn't accomplish: not a great reward for a long day's slog.

Increasingly, the Internet reflects our vision of the offline world where people naturally gravitate toward groups who already share our opinion on social and political matters. 

Just as Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet is more often bedeviled by his own thoughts, enhancing your brain might one day mean shutting parts of it down, not getting it to fire on all cylinders.

The technologists who brought you online dating, music streaming platforms, e-readers, and mobile phones are now tackling food production.

How you get to work, and how long that journey takes, generally determine the level of satisfaction you have with your commute, according to British and Canadian researchers.

From pinpointing different brain regions to the treatment of neurological disorders, scientists have demonstrated that the brain is a highly plastic organ capable of learning new things well into the later stages of life.

You wouldn't likely shop online for new shoes or look up baseball stats at a meeting held in your office, but what about on a conference call? The cloak of invisibly is powerful freedom...

Is it better to set aside office time for team training activities or to take advantage of digital technology, allowing everyone to learn at the their own pace and in their own time?

There are undeniable advantages to carrying a whole library on your Kindle or tablet computer but retaining the information you read doesn't seem to be one of them. 

The music we listen to strongly informs our emotions and choosing the right tunes can easily alter how we interact with our surroundings: a romantic song for date night versus a get-up-and-go song for the morning commute.

Technology in the classroom is an often talked about goal that has shown few results to date. But that may change as certain high school students in Houston begin receiving artificially intelligent digital textbooks.

The potency of the omega-3 vitamin, long thought to be the source of this beneficial effect, is now in doubt...

An assumption we often make about life's choices is that the larger the choice, the more deliberation is needed to arrive at the best plan of action. This isn't always the case, however.

What many of us have long taken to be the measure of scholastic success--our college grade point average--is of relatively little concern to most employers.

By simply concentrating on being present for a short amount of time each day, your mind will naturally prioritize events and keep you calmer and more focused in the office. 

Begun in 1938 when Harvard University began following 268 undergraduate males, the longest longitudinal study of development in human history has been completed and the results are in. 

As the economy seems to ask for ever-more productivity, coffee's limited ability to keep us concentrated have become clearer.

The billions of dollars spent on new technology have produced data that is "pretty weak", according to Tom Vander Ark, the former executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.