Typical study methods like lectures, cramming, and re-reading are ineffective. According to scientific research, they don’t help students retain information over the long term. What works is spaced ...

Do you want to improve your short-term memory? Do you want to remember names, faces, important details — basically anything — more reliably and much more easily? (Or, if you’re like me, do you just ...

Oh, how familiar it is: You put your phone down, and a few minutes later you’re looking for it everywhere…in the kitchen, in your purse, on the floor—Did I leave it in the car? Or you run into a ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

Contrary to conventional thinking, it's never too late to learn a new language. Use these tips to get started. For more than two years, Dulcie Shoener of Milwaukee has done daily German lessons on her ...