Being a bookworm, jotting down your thoughts and completing other tasks that keep your brain active may help you stay sharp in your later years. A study published on July 3 in Neurology revealed that ...

Books are still the best gift for grandma this holiday season, and Beckman researchers have the science to back it up. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Baseball may be America’s ...

Scientists and designers have created a font that supposedly helps people to remember more of what they read. Called Sans Forgetica, it was developed by typographic designers and psychologists, ...

Old fashioned books have picked up a lot of haters in recent years. Environmentalists have decried them as "dead tree" mediums, while average readers often complain they can be weighty, cumbersome and ...

Picking up your favorite novel and diving into the world of words is the best way to take some time off from the rat race of life. But this leisure pursuit can also help you to sharpen your memory and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Plenty of people acknowledge forgetting most of what they read, no matter how much they enjoyed the text. But just because forgetting is a human ...

CHICAGO, July 4 (UPI) -- Reading books, writing and participating in brain-stimulating activities at any age may preserve memory when old, U.S. researchers say. Study author Robert S. Wilson of the ...

It’s no understatement that digital mediums have taken over every aspect of our lives. We check what our friends are doing on the glowing screens in our hands, read books on dedicated e-readers, and ...

After a head injury at the age of 5, Jim Kwik went through school with a learning disability. He didn’t understand what the teachers were teaching, couldn’t focus in class, and it took him an extra ...

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but reading on paper still has its advantages One of the most provocative viral YouTube videos in the past two years ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hi, you two. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: Hi, Mary ...

A criminal act may or may not leave a trace of physical evidence, but it will leave a memory trace in the perpetrator’s mind. Is it possible to read his/her mind? The question of whether we can detect ...