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According to the research team, this is the first study to prove how physical activity can beat back depression despite genetic predisposition. Read More

What these professors wanted to know was, how can we get students to learn more? More generally, how do people learn anything — and what gets in the way? … Read More

If you’re getting it all of the time, you’re not getting very far. The University of California Berkeley studied the relationship between failure and learning – and exacted just how much failure you should be doing in order to be learning. Read More

It’s common knowledge that a good night’s sleep usually makes you feel calm and relaxed. However, a sleepless night causes your anxiety to spike, according to new research published in the journal Nature Human Behavior from researchers at University of California Berkeley. Read More

“There are a bunch of things that are probably contributing to people’s likelihood (of) getting Alzheimer’s and I think sleep is going to turn out to be one of them,”  researcher, WIlliam Jagust told NPR. Read More

The latest in a series of studies shows that you snooze, you lose: early retirement does nothing good for keeping your brain sharp. Read More

A new study highlights coffee’s effects on the gut microbiota living in our stomach, another relatively new addition to dietary science. Read More

Researchers even had employees who said they were frequent consumers of sugary drinks, which is more than 12 ounces per day. When the trial started, participants averaged 35 ounces of sugared drinks daily but that number was drastically cut nearly in half to an average of 18 ounces daily. Read More

Athletes are under pressure – and it can cause them to act on the field in ways they wouldn’t in the real world, according to a new study. Read More