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, ...

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 ...

About one in four single adults say they would turn down their perfect match if that person showed up tomorrow, according to a new nationwide survey of nearly 5,000 singles. Instead of jumping into a ...

“Mental load” refers to the behind-the-scenes work of keeping a life running: tracking appointments, remembering bills, planning meals and handling a steady stream of small decisions. For people ...

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.

Ask a random adult to name the three branches of government, and there’s a real chance they’ll draw a blank. A new nationwide survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of ...

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 ...

The intuitive story about silencing a phone is a flattering one: it’s a small act of discipline, a sign that someone values undistracted time enough to opt out of the constant buzz. That intuition has ...

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 ...

Neighborhoods with higher incomes and higher homeownership rates each face roughly 30% higher odds of getting hit by wildfire than other communities, according to a sweeping new analysis of 141 U.S.

Men who feel both lonely and cut off from others have nearly six fewer years of life free from depression or anxiety, according to a massive new study. That gap dwarfs the roughly two fewer years ...