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The traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance — where work and personal time are neatly divided — has given way to a more ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

"When a news organization recognizes you're cognitively depleted and serves you digestible audio instead of demanding you ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

We all spend our days thinking, solving problems, making choices, learning new things, yet most of us rarely pause to examine ...

New research shows that creative activities may slow the brain’s aging process. Here is how creativity strengthens cognitive ...

Fasting has long been sold as a shortcut to weight loss, but a growing body of research suggests the real action may be ...

Your brain needs different fuel throughout the day. Mornings require clean energy for focus. Afternoons benefit from steady ...

The current breakthrough weight-loss drugs are only the beginning, according to Danish researchers hard at work on a new treatment that targets the brain's natural plasticity, which could offset bad ...