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How to Stick With Good Habits When Your Willpower Is Gone
Most people think that building better habits or changing your actions is all about willpower or motivation. But the more I learn, the more I believe …
Will PowerMastering the Delicate Art of Responding to Compliments
You’re wearing a new sweater to a family gathering, and an in-law tells you how great you look in it. Although pleased that your outfit is …
Make Everyone You Meet Unforgettable
You can quickly learn how to remember everyone’s name at your next gathering.<p>Have you ever been introduced to a bunch of different people in a room …
How to Think Like a Wise Person
If I asked you to judge how smart someone is, you’d know where to start. But if you were going to assess how <i>wise</i> that person is, what qualities would …
You 2.0
You or Your World?<p>If only you had a more interesting job, lived in that charming old house across town, or were married to Dave instead of Tom—you'd …
Hacking our senses to boost learning power
Some schools are pumping music, noises and fragrances into the classroom to see if it improves exam results – could it work?<p>What did your school smell like? Was it noisy or peaceful?<p>It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that smells and sounds can have an impact on …
This Man Thinks He Can 3-D Print An Entire House
Scientists already are working on 3-D printing organs. If we can do that, a house should be easy.<p>While enthusiasts believe that there will eventually be a 3-D printer in every home, University of Southern California professor Berokh Khoshnevis has spent the last decade working on a far bigger …
Bringing Back the Unconscious: The Latest Science on Awakenings
Hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. languish in unconsciousness, cut off from the world by severe brain injuries. But the latest research …
The Queen Will See You Now: How Bees’ Sense Of Smell Might Soon Diagnose Disease
Bees, it turns out, can learn to recognize biomarkers of disease very quickly. “Bees can be trained in a few minutes,” Soares says. Like dogs, they …
A Surgeon’s Review Of Google Glass In The Operating Room
Dr. Pierre Theodore of UC San Francisco has completed a three-month trial of using Google Glass during surgery.<p>For a little over three months now, Dr. Pierre Theodore, a cardiothoracic surgeon, has been using Google Glass in the operating room. Although he’s tapped the functionality during …
Why Do We Age? A 46-Species Comparison
Science & InnovationOnly Human<p>Why we age is a tricky evolutionary question. A full set of DNA resides in each of our cells, after all, allowing most of them to replicate again and again and again. Why don’t all tissues regenerate forever? Wouldn’t that be evolutionarily advantageous?<p>Since the early …
Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over
Close your eyes and imagine the last time you fell in love. Maybe you were walking next to your sweetheart in a park or staring into each other's eyes over a latte.<p>Where did you feel the love? Perhaps you got butterflies in your stomach or your heart raced with excitement.<p>When a team of scientists …
Innovation: A Charger That Keeps Your Phone Germ-Free
Whatever our hands touch, our phones touch. And that means our mobile phones can be downright nasty. Some people even use their phones while they're in the bathroom stall. So it probably won't surprise you that a 2011 University of London study found that one in six of our phones have fecal matter …
Caffeine Enhances Memory
That morning cup of coffee or lunchtime soda might serve a purpose beyond giving you a jolt of energy. According to a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, caffeine enhances memory.<p>Participants in the study took placebos or 200-milligram caffeine tablets—the same amount of the …