Beating the Young Whipper Snappers: Decision Making Does Get Better With Age

Older adults are better at decision-making than young adults

ScienceDaily (2011-08-23) -- We make decisions all our lives -- so you'd think we'd get better and better at it. Yet research has shown that younger adults are better decision-makers than older ones. Some psychologists, puzzled by these findings, suspected the experiments were biased toward younger brains. ... > read full article

I Love "Aha" Moments: How the Brain Makes Predictions

Everyday 'clairvoyance:' How your brain makes near-future predictions

ScienceDaily (2011-08-18) -- Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions -- when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications. ... > read full article

This Is Why I Look The Way I Do: Lack of Sleep and Beauty Are Linked

The key to being attractive (and looking healthy)? A good night's sleep

ScienceDaily (2010-12-16) -- If you want to look attractive and healthy, the best thing you can do is get a good night's sleep, finds new research. ... > read full article

Talking and Listening Processed in the Same Region of the Brain fMRI Reveals

Speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain

ScienceDaily (2011-08-16) -- The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions of the brain. Now, a new study finds that speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain, with one difference: we don't need the brain regions that control the movements of lips, teeth, and so on to understand speech. ... > read full article

It's Cool to Be Fat? At Least for Dogs...

If fat dogs are cool, could fat people be, too?

ScienceDaily (2011-08-13) -- Fat dogs are cool. And obese people may be, too. That's what new research suggests. ... > read full article

I Eat When I'm Stressed!?

Scientists highlight link between stress and appetite

ScienceDaily (2011-08-12) -- Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which stress increases food drive in rats. This new discovery could provide important insight into why stress is thought to be one of the underlying contributors to obesity. ... > read full article

Not Sure About More Kids But...Family Life Sacrificed for a Career in Science :(

Many top U.S. scientists wish they had more children, study finds; 25 percent of scientists consider leaving the profession for family life

ScienceDaily (2011-08-08) -- Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the United States' top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study. ... > read full article