I like to read nonfiction books on various topics that I'm interested in, but I find that the information doesn't really stick. For example, I read a biography of Thomas Jefferson about a year ago ...

1. Reading raises your intelligence. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and King’s College London tested 1,890 pairs of twins five times from ages 7 to 16 for reading ability and IQ ...

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but a new imaging system from MIT can see right through the cover and read the book while it's still closed.

While this specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging has transformed cognitive neuroscience, it isn’t a mind-reading machine: neuroscientists can’t look at a brain scan and tell what ...