Erin Brodwin

If you want to live forever, just stick around for the next five decades. Researchers are beginning to unravel the puzzle of aging, and so far they've identified simple lifestyle changes that add years to our lives. They have found unique proteins…

A cup of fresh-squeezed fruits and veggies might seem like the ultimate healthy snack. With everyone from your next-door neighbor to A-list celebrities professing their love for $12 containers of the suspicious-looking stuff, there must be miracle…

Make sure you love it. Being interested in what we're doing doesn't only make it more fun. It also makes you more engaged, dedicated and efficient, according to new research from Duke University. Think back to the last time you were so into whatever…

What if you could take down climate change deniers with a single click? Now you can, thanks to "Science Stands," a simple new app that enables users to tweet scientific papers that substantiate the existence of climate change to its deniers. How it…

We're taught, from a young age, that hurting other people is bad. But what if you were ordered to hurt someone in the name of scientific research?  You will likely do it. New research reveals that people who believe their actions are contributing to…

Grapes are not just good for making wine. Eating a handful of them every day could cut your risk of heart disease in half and add years to your life. Not a grape fan? Not to worry: Strawberries also do the trick. In fact: Eating fresh fruit daily…

"Without GMO, there would be no papaya in Hawaii," Eric Weinert, the general manager of Hawaii operations for papaya company Calavo Growers, told the New York Times in 2013.  Weinert, along with many other farmers and industry professionals, raised…

It turns out that the "feel good" chemical serotonin has a lot less to do with depression than we thought. So, the way doctors are treating the 1 in 10 Americans who suffer from depression may be totally wrong, according to new research from the VA…

What's in a name? A whole lot, it turns out, including your parents' political ideology. The news: Using birth records from close to 550,000 babies born in California in 2004 (a collection representing more than half a million different names),…

Worried about the California drought? Turns out it's no big deal, at least not compared to what's coming. The news: According to new research published this week, the entire American Southwest is poised to face a three-to-four decade dry spell that…

Image Credit: Getty It's hard work to be amazing at everything. For some people, though, it seems to come naturally. Here's the truth: a) It doesn't, and b) You can do exactly what they do. Here are seven proven ways to increase your efficiency…

When a man told a female scientist on Facebook this week that she should stop smiling so much because she was ugly, she responded — appropriately — with a smile. The man, Brian Rice, had mistakenly called her a "weather girl," a term ostensibly…

Monarch butterflies: In the mid 1990s, enough of these majestic creatures circled the American skyline to cover nearly 40 football fields. Today, even if they stretched, they'd cover only one. The monarch's staggering 90% decline over the past two…

Put down the M&Ms: Your junk food habit isn't just making you fat — it's making you boring as well. According to a new study in Frontiers in Psychology, we lose our natural desire for different types of food when we eat unhealthily on a regular…

Whether you're a pack-a-day smoker or a person who picks up an occasional cigarette at a backyard party, here's your motivation to stop.  As you can see in the Vine of artificially replicated healthy lungs and smoker's lungs, one of the lungs —…

This story was written independently by our editorial staff prior to Mic's partnership with GE. Zero. You've heard the phrase "drinking kills brain cells." What you may not know is that the statement is completely false. While pure alcohol will…

Last week, Forbes reported that breakfast had lost its status as the most important meal of the day. Image Credit: Forbes Over at The Atlantic, editors published a story claiming that breakfast was no longer necessary (the title has since been…

Remember all that climate change business we've spent the past decade beating ourselves up about? It's about to get a whole lot worse: Scientists have recently discovered deep deposits of a powerful warming gas leaking into the ocean from previously…

This is an image of a lizard regrowing a lost tail. How that phenomenal process happens — a discovery that would have huge implications for regrowing lost limbs in humans — has been a mystery until this week, when scientists landed on the exact…