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Health & Wellness

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

The most important metaskill you can learn is how to learn. Learning allows you to adapt. As Darwin hinted, it’s not...

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Reducing drinking could help with smoking cessation, research finds

If quitting smoking is one of your New Year’s resolutions, you might want to consider cutting back on your...

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A newly discovered, naturally low-caffeine tea plant

Tea drinkers who seek the popular beverage’s soothing flavor without its explosive caffeine jolt could soon have...

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Do You Know What Medicines Are Safe for Your Child?

  We’ve all been there: when your young child is sick and suffering miserably with symptoms like a raw, runny...

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Pilot study suggests pedal desks could address health risks of sedentary workplace

A recent pilot study by kinesiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that pedaling while conducting...

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New review of scientific studies confirms food cravings can be reduced

Food craving, the intense desire to eat certain foods, can sabotage efforts to maintain healthy eating habits and body...

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Alcohol intake may be key to long-term weight loss for people with Diabetes

Research shows that losing weight can help prevent or delay the onset of diabetes. While best practice for weight loss...

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How the brain decides what to learn

In order to learn about the world, an animal needs to do more than just pay attention to its surroundings. It also...

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The difference a year makes

Could a child’s birthday put him or her at risk for an ADHD misdiagnosis? The answer appears to be yes, at least...

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Plot twist: Mitochondrial DNA can come from both parents

The vast majority of our DNA—the chromosomes in the nucleus of each cell—is just what you’d expect: a mix of...

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