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It's right up there with food, sex and drugs when its comes to stirring up pleasure responses in our brains
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Some say the best way to improve American education--and get teachers more respect--is make them take challenging entry exams like doctors and lawyers do
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The FDA is investigating whether doctors aren't getting enough training before they start using machines to do surgery. Is the "wow" factor to blame?
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They're still a threat to bats and birds and now they even have their own "syndrome". So, are there better ways to capture the wind?
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Scientists keep learning new things about food, from the diet power of olive oil's aroma to how chewing gum can keep you away from healthy foods
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They're the biggest innovation in higher education in years, but are they a threat to small universities and community colleges?
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Should sending "Thank you" emails and leaving voice mails now be considered bad manners? Some think texting has made it so
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When an algorithm-driven light show took over the Bay Bridge last week, it was the latest example of how much technology is transforming how cities look.
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More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined
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Actually, fairly smart. And we're only seeing the first wave of smartwatches, with Apple expected to enter the fray as early as this year
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With nanomedicine, the strategy is not to poison cancer cells or to blast them away but to trick them
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The White House wants to fund a huge project that would allow scientists to see, in real time, how a brain does its work
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Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
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Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
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The debate over drones stirs up questions about whether robots can learn ethical behavior. Will they be able to make moral decisions?
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Pro football is turning to screens--some massive, others on smart phones--to try to keep its fans entertained.
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We're getting closer to the day when your smartphone knows you have a cold before you do
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As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead
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HapiFork, a utensil that slows down your eating, is one of a new wave of gadgets designed to help you take control of your health
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