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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A night at the theater or an afternoon at a museum might do more than lift the spirits. A new study found that older adults who regularly visited cinemas, museums, and theaters had measurably lower ...

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There’s a reason a grandparent’s record collection feels so different from what’s topping the charts today, and it goes beyond sound. Over the past six decades, the words woven into popular music have ...

Every parent who has tossed a Lunchables tray into a child’s lunch bag probably wasn’t thinking about cigarettes. But according to a new analysis published in the American Journal of Public Health, ...

For most of the 20th century, a quiet assumption ran through American life: each generation would outlive the one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives. It held true, decade after ...

Getting up from a chair may be one of the most basic things a person can do, but how quickly and repeatedly someone can rise from a seat may offer clues about how long and how well they’ll live. New ...

Being a worrier is usually seen as a health liability. Stress, anxiety, sleepless nights: conventional wisdom has long treated high neuroticism as bad news for longevity. A large new study throws a ...

For more than sixty years, the test for whether a computer could think like a doctor has stayed roughly the same: hand it a tough medical case and see if it can figure out what’s wrong. Generations of ...