According To Science

As a scientist who has focused on this question for the past decade, I should have a pretty good idea of who is and isn’t going to die by suicide. But the sad truth is, I don’t. The sadder truth is, neither do any other suicide experts, psychiatrists or physicians. Read More

We should be paying the same level of concern to cleaning our screens as we already do to washing our hands in bathrooms, germ experts warn. Read More

New research shows that women’s voices today are significantly deeper than previous generations and that is because of roles shifting and power dynamics. Read More

When you look back over your career regrets, you’re more likely to be haunted by the job you did not take than the work mistakes you actually did make. Why? A new paper published in the journal Emotion has looked into why inaction stings longer than other failures. Read More

Managers today are facing a flood of continuous, overlapping, and accelerating change that has turned their organizations upside down. And managing people in this environment requires all the communication and leadership strategies we learned in the past – and then some. Read More

Senior research scientist Jaques Reifman, who works on biotechnology software for the U.S. Army, has discovered the perfect amount of coffee an individual should drink to stay alert based on an algorithm. Read More

When you cannot enjoy the benefits of going outside at work, bring the outside indoors and get yourself a houseplant for your office. Their vibrant leaves not only perk up your dreary desk, but they are proven to give you a much-needed breath of fresh air. Unlike us, plants can absorb harmful gasses from the air … Read More

Although taking the time to reduce your dependency on your smartphone might be worthwhile, if you should ever be unfortunate to lose your phone, your separation anxiety will be much more manageable if it doesn’t feel like you have just lost one of your limbs. Read More

It feels impossible to tell if the technology our kids use should be celebrated or feared. How alarmed should we be? Is this a crisis or a fear frenzy? I wanted to understand what the studies really tell us about the effect personal technology is having on our children. Read More