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The theory that natural landscapes recharge minds that have been stretched thin by harsh urban environments is not new, but only recently has the theory become testable.
A team of British researchers will soon begin testing an electrical device which, by attaching to a nerve that controls the body's appetite for food, could provide an alternative to weight-loss surgery.
By building circuits out of DNA, researchers at Stanford have found a way to program the body's cells with logic functions, similar to how computer chips work on larger scales.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the benefits of gastric bypass surgery, in which the stomach of a patient is shrunk, can be passed on without surgery.
To help feed the world's malnourished, a team of students at McGill University, Montreal, are putting forth a plan meant to facilitate the production of edible insects on an industrial scale.
Once infamous for how they objectified the female body, marketing departments at beer and spirit producers have begun selling their products to women as weight-loss drinks.
MIT, Harvard and Stanford universities have all begun offering massive open online courses for free, but the larger ramifications on our national education may be adverse, say experts.
Two new mobile apps—one from Google and one from a smaller tech startup—may indicate how large scale data analysis, i.e. Big Data, can help you manage your daily affairs.
Without paying money for goods and services, customers have little recourse when a company decides to radically change its game plan. Is your data in danger of disappearing?
Experimental researchers at the Pentagon have just undertaken a four-year project to build artificially intelligent computers that can teach themselves new and better artificial intelligence.
Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale.
"It’s absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil—we think it’s a myth," said Mark Z. Jacobson, author of a new energy report by the National Research Council.
New statistics suggest that Bolivia is successfully reducing the number of its farmers who make a living off growing coca plants which, when processed, is the essential ingredient in cocaine.
In the midst of Spain's financial crises, a record number of its citizens are turning to Bitcoin, an online virtual currency used to exchange goods and services using complex computer software.
With the death of Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author and critic of the Western Canon, have we as a readership surpassed the political and aesthetic limitations of what we define as good art?
To allow society to prosper without sapping the planet of life, a new approach is needed. The economy must be seen as servicing society, which will only function properly with a thriving ecosystem.
From the viewpoint of our genes, having children must be the meaning of life, says science writer Dr. Lawrence Rifkin. The only purpose of their existence is to be passed down to future generations.
Mindfulness, or mindfulness meditation, in which practitioners intentionally pay attention to the present in a nonjudgemental way, has become a useful tool in the stress management toolkit.
Experiments on animal cognition have found that intelligence is more dynamic than we once thought and that animals may be far more clever than we have historically given them credit for.
Using a technique known as optogenetics, neuroscientists have gained an unparalleled window into how individual neural networks work in the brain by borrowing jellyfish protein.