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, ...

Most of us don’t notice the physical cost of scrolling until something starts to ache: a stiff neck after a long commute, a sore thumb at the end of the day, or eyes that feel dry long before bedtime.

People whose retinas showed thinning in a specific layer of nerve tissue faced a 27% higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation years later for every added step of thinning measured, according to a ...

Eating just one more ounce of processed meat every day was tied to as much as a 52 percent higher risk of developing dementia, according to a massive UK study cited in a new scientific review.

Dogs listening to made-up strings of gibberish showed a brain pattern that looks oddly human: their brain activity locked onto consonant patterns far more strongly than vowel patterns, according to a ...

Reaching for a pill can feel like the only option when pain flares up, whether it’s an aching knee or a pounding migraine. A sweeping new analysis out of Adelaide University suggests movement might ...

That recurring middle-of-the-night wake-up may feel like a sign that something is off. Yet researchers say it can also be a surprisingly ordinary result of what happens in the body before dawn. It has ...