Science of Everyday Life

Research shows that taking notes by hand forces you to actively listen.

It’s not the cold. It’s the darkness.

Experts say 3 to 5 cups per day can be part of a healthy diet. Here’s why.

Greasy foods don’t cause acne. Skim milk might.

To a brain scanner, a person in love looks like someone who’s addicted to drugs.

You produce more than a quart of mucus per day.

How one plant can be so many foods.

Our sterilized world may be giving us allergies and asthma.

#2: Your sense of touch gets worse as you age.

When the salt washes away, it causes all sorts of havoc. So scientists are looking for alternatives.

There are few rules for how it’s used and companies will slap it on all sorts of things.

A gastroenterologist shares an expert’s guide to poop

The memory researcher’s guide to studying.

Cooperation and kindness are key factors to success.

Behold, the ultimate chart of snowflake taxonomy.

Sound waves transmit better through bone than through air.

Welcome to the science of (non-)spoilage.

This new experiment shows that the screen’s light delayed sleep and made people groggier in the morning, too.

#1: We seem to be doing more swearing than ever

This is what happens when you give a psychoactive drug to your pet.

Everyone else is doing it.

Try not to think about it.

Research suggests a later start could lead to better sleep — and health.

It all has to do with stomach hair.

You can retrain your brain to make travel less terrible.

How to find out how much you’re actually sleeping — and how to improve it.

Some of these tips are remarkably easy.

Use the science of social jetlag to your advantage.

How researchers are tracking down the causes — and possible cures — for peanut allergies

Thank you, evolution, for making me buy all these blankets.

Be warned: it hurts like hell.

Don’t want to pay a charity CEO’s salary? Neither does anyone else.

It turns out that sitting in a small, pressurized metal tube at 35,000 feet for several hours wreaks havoc on your body.

But researchers can get fairly close just with a blood sample. Here’s how.

The scientific case against owning a cat.

You really shouldn’t listen with the volume all the way up. Here’s why.

Researchers are beginning to figure out what all those hours of slumber are actually for.