People reach for a book to calm down more often than they reach for a glass of wine or a hot bath, according to a new editorial pulling together decades of research on reading and mental health. One ...

On the days hybrid workers stay home instead of going into the office, they sit for about 44 extra minutes and get roughly 58 fewer minutes of light and moderate-to-vigorous activity combined, ...

Posting an honest product review seems harmless enough. New research suggests it can help reveal someone’s social connections to cybercriminals. A study published in the journal Information Systems ...

Millions of years ago in Colombia, something bit clean through the skull of an animal nearly the size of a rhino. Scientists just found out what it was. Today’s largest living crocodile, the saltwater ...

Most people assume more time at the gym means more benefit. A major new study published in Cell Reports Medicine complicates that idea. Three minutes of all-out effort, spread across six 30-second ...

Married couples who exercise, whether together or alone, report better communication, fewer serious arguments, and a stronger ability to resolve conflict, according to a new study published in Family ...

Research led by Li-Lin Liang, PhD (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Chen-Te Hsu, PhD, MPH (National Taiwan University of Sport) Standing on one leg for up to 30 seconds sounds like a party ...

Viagra has been quietly racking up a second résumé. Best known for treating erectile dysfunction, sildenafil turns out to have a separate, previously unrecognized effect inside cancer cells: it ...

With the exception of “Quality of City Services” score, all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that city, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric ...

Researchers at Stanford University built an AI tool called BurgerAI and trained it on thousands of burger recipes. It learned the statistical patterns of what makes food taste good, then used that ...

For some people, a relentless low drone fills the background of daily life, like a diesel engine idling just out of sight. It persists through quiet rooms, through the night, through years of ...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently revealed that his company had spent “tens of millions” of dollars on electricity just to process users’ “thank you” messages sent to ChatGPT. Plenty of people ...