How many times has this happened to you? You leave work, decide that you need to get groceries on the way home, take a cellphone call and forget all about your plan. Next thing you know, you've driven home and forgotten all about the groceries. Or this. You decide, perhaps circa Jan. 1, that it's time to lose weight; you need to ...

Neanderthals may have given modern humans a gene that helped develop superior brains by interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, according to researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago. The team found ...