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 ...

A morning habit shared by billions of people may be tied to men’s hormone levels in a way nobody fully expected. A large study published in European Journal of Nutrition found that men who drank more ...

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 ...

Millions of people scroll, game, or shop online to escape a rough day. It seems intuitive that stress and a bad mood would be the main culprits pushing someone toward problematic internet use. A large ...

A new experiment asked college students to sit quietly outdoors for 10 minutes while different sounds played through their headphones, then measured how stressed, emotionally drained, or mentally ...

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 ...

For years, fish oil supplements have been marketed as brain boosters, lining pharmacy shelves with promises of sharper thinking and a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Many older adults take them ...

A new national survey of more than 8,000 American adults found that 35.6% said political violence is usually or always justified for at least one specific political goal. That figure was 32.3% just a ...

People who regularly attend concerts, visit museums, or paint on weekends may carry a less-expected benefit in their DNA. A new study found that adults who frequently engaged in arts and cultural ...

Friendships have ended over it. Family dinners have gotten awkward and stayed that way. For a growing number of Americans, politics hasn’t just created tension; it has cost them relationships entirely ...

Something is going wrong for middle-aged Americans, and most of the wealthy world doesn’t share the problem. A new review of research spanning multiple countries and generations has found that ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters adds evidence to a growing body of research suggesting summer is growing longer, arriving more abruptly, and piling up heat at an ...