The App That Predicts Alzheimer's Risk
What is the likelihood that a given person will develop Alzheimer's disease within the next two to four years? Currently, the quickest...
Stop Coffee From Tanking Your Metabolism
It's a common scenario for many: after a night of poor or interrupted sleep, your first move, before doing anything else, is to drink a...
Something to Crow About
For decades, we've heard anecdotal evidence of the unnerving intelligence of birds in the corvid family: crows, ravens, jackdaws, and so...
Want to Learn More? Pick Up a Pen
When you're learning new information and you want to remember it, you might be tempted to reach for your keyboard or your phone. However,...
PTSD May Double Chances of Dementia
A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first-ever global meta-analysis on the possible link between...
Reactions to Positive and Negative Events Better With Sleep
You might have noticed how, after a night of poor sleep, any sort of stress you experience feels magnified. Now a new study from the...
The Over-the-Counter Medicine That Increases Your Risk-Taking
We tend to think of our personalities as pretty fixed and stable. We divide ourselves into introverts and extroverts, dreamers and...
The Simplest Crime Reform You'll Ever Hear About
According to the Innocence Project, false eyewitness reports play a role in roughly 70% of wrongful convictions. Witnesses to crimes are...
The Smiling Hack
In the middle of a pandemic, with economic and political unrest growing everywhere and the promise of an ugly election cycle coming up,...
More Senses, Lower Dementia Risk
Dementia is a devastating condition, and as our population ages, a looming fear for many. For decades, science has sought to better...
