The new manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness includes “Internet Use Disorder”, and erases the distinction between grieving over the loss of a loved one and full-blown depression.
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There remains a substantial debate in the scientific community over whether brain training games really work to build the brain or just make you better at the isolated tasks which the games assign.
“While there’s quite a lot of research that shows memory worsens as we get older, perhaps the way we choose what to remember is a means of adapting to changes in brain function.”
Scientists at Princeton University have created a bionic ear using a three-dimensional home printer and combined the prosthesis with electronics that can “hear” radio frequencies.
The video below demonstrates the handiwork of DARPA-funded dexterous robotic hand hardware. The adaptable, adaptable, low-cost robots that can use a wide range of human tools to assist in dangerous defense missions.
A new solution of particles at the nano scale has been developed by a consortium of American universities that, in mice, has proven effective at controlling type 1 diabetes for days on end.
Popular folklore advises against eating on the go because it causes indigestion, contributing to discomfort and weight gain, but to ask medical professionals, you might think what your mother told you was not entire accurate.
FDA Deputy Commissioner Michael Taylor called the growing trend of adding caffeine to snacks and energy drinks “very disturbing to us.”
The only thing I’ve benefited from cats is I don’t understand them.
The picture above is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory over the course of the past year.
Just minutes after meditating, participants in a recent experiment showed beneficial changes to their genetic profile with helpful genes becoming more active and harmful ones becoming less so.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national suicide rate has increased dramatically in the past decade such that self-inflicted deaths now outnumber those caused by motor accidents.
“Why is the mass of the electron what it is and not 12 times larger or half the size?”
We have reason to believe that some aspects of free will you are not consciously aware of. I don’t think that necessarily means that you’re not free, but you’re not consciously aware of it.
Edward is also helping change the field of philanthropy by co-founding CrowdRise, a social fundraising site that makes it easy and fun for people to raise money for their favorite causes.
I think that the debate over the existence of free will is so much more consequential than the debate over the existence of God.
From a health standpoint there really is not one shred of evidence that genetically modified food has any impact on health other than beneficial.
If we take away the either/or aspect to relationships when it comes to sex, I think we’ll end up with much more stable relationships and happier people, probably.
Try a few new things and yeah, sometimes it will be embarrassing. But maybe that is not such a bad thing. Maybe it’s worth it.
It is happening…but as the quote often associated with discussions of innovation suggests, “the future is here, it is just not evenly distributed….” For years, I’ve predicted, promoted and pleaded […]
There’s no consensus yet as to how we should think about a lot of these biotechnologies. It’s what we’re working out.
There are two things that people want to be able to do to improve their emotional life.
Are U.S. Guns to Blame for Violence in Mexico?
Reverse innovation is not about giving yesterday’s technology; it is not about giving cheap products. It’s about giving value because poor people want value.
We’re constantly editing our day with blinking.
As we keep pushing forward with technology, we’ll be able to take more and more data from the invisible parts of the world and start feeding them into our brain.
Mathematics is a way of formulating an idea, not an idea itself.
You can grow from failure and then you work at it again. You never give up. You keep pushing forward.
One of the most important things you can do is just accept your need for ego validation.
This 80-milligram robot is not only the size of an insect, it also maneuvers like flies with the help of piezoelectric muscles and rotating joints.