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Research suggests that high use of social media and AI chat tools may affect your attention and memory. But there is something you can do about it.

The DeepMind CEO said that AI is like the internet — people can use it to learn all kinds of topics, or use it in ways that ...

The Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology (SASGOG) has selected Momentum Association ...

Visible line length and movement shape how people experience waiting, according to new research on the psychology of queues.

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

The brain works like a muscle. Thinking, learning, and practicing a skill literally causes structural adaptations in our brains. For instance, scientists examining musicians’ and non-musicians’ brains ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase in the body's immune response to a vaccine. The findings from a study ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, ...

Annemieke Apergis-Schoute received funding from The Wellcome Trust for previous OCD research. Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of ...

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