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A new study suggests people who live happier lives live longer. Erica Hill speaks to the author of "The Happiness Project" Gretchen Rubin and profiles how this philosophy changed the life of one woman.

Doctors who listen to Mozart while performing colonoscopy more likely to find precancerous colon polyps, small study shows

British study reports 35 percent reduced risk of death compared with people who reported feeling least happy

Earlier research suggested relatives of women with BRCA mutation were five times more likely to develop breast cancer

A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game. Illustration by Radio After spending their childhood playing online games, students at Choate Rosemary Hall will soon be able to live inside one

When 20-year-old Brittany Hillard removed her blindfold to see boyfriend Cameron Humfleet get down on one knee and propose, she was literally swept off her feet.

In Google Maps , the distance-measuring tool offers a choice of three unit systems: Metric, English or “I’m Feeling Geeky.” If you click the third one, you’re offered a long list of, ahem, somewhat uncommon measurement units, including parsecs, Persian cubits, and Olympic swimming pools. Mac OS X’s text-to-speech feature, meanwhile, lets you endow your Mac with any of dozens of different human voices. Each speaks a funny sample sentence.

These days, software engineers’ overlords generally don’t tolerate true, secret Easter eggs. The bosses argue that such surprises are untested, may be incompatible with the software company’s public image, and (when they feature the programmers’ names) amount to “poach me!” ads for rival companies’ headhunters.

How can you capitalize on the good will felt toward small business this holiday season? We've scoured the statistics and tapped experts for their best strategies

International coalition calls for boycott of J&J products over use of questionable chemicals in shampoo sold in U.S.

Sci saw this paper being tweeted around the internets recently, a paper on the evolution of overconfidence . It seemed like a really interesting and cool paper, and I was kind of surprised that no one had covered it

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Like a pit bull, piranhas will tear the flesh from your bones. Also like a pit bull, they bark

Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ..

Hopes for new Alzheimer's drugs that would slow or stop the disease's inexorable decline have repeatedly foundered in recent years. Large pharmaceutical companies, which have pushed ahead with drugs that stop the buildup of toxic proteins that damage and kill brain cells, have reported a recurring string of bad news.