Why We Save Stuff

Ever help a friend move and find yourself asking, why is she keeping that? A new study may have the answer. When people were asked to choose between an iPod and, say, $100, they were more likely to choose the money. But when they were given an iPod and then immediately...

Just Let Go: Studying the Brain on Jazz

Turns out that music really can alter your brain, or at least making it can. A recently-published study tracks the activity in jazz musicians' brains as they do their thing, and it's really cool (that's the...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University one step closer to mind reading sca...

Most scientists have dismissed the idea of reading minds using technology as pure science fiction, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers have moved a step closer to doing so. Not only have they been able to...

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