Helping children learn effectively requires more than effort and intelligence. How students allocate their time, whether they are consistently getting enough sleep, and how they approach learning ...

A new study suggests that the people who reach the pinnacle of their fields typically dabbled in multiple disciplines when they were young. By Maggie Astor Young prodigies — the teenage sports stars, ...

Imagine a teen sitting at her desk and staring at an impossible algebra problem. Instead of waiting until class the next day or calling a friend, she types the question into an artificial intelligence ...

A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the brain’s taste cortex responds not only to flavors on the tongue but also to aromas that reach the nose while eating, known as retronasal ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of Study Mode, a new feature within ChatGPT that aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions.

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a transformative step in understanding the condition ...

MathWorks, a mathematical computing software company headquartered in Natick, Mass., disclosed a ransomware attack in an update to its website on Monday. MathWorks is known for creating the MATLAB ...

Night after night, a story unfolds in the theater, and it's not often the stage itself is considered a character. Company manager Cathy Poochigian-Pratt tells me it's almost one of the stars of the ...