An older relative insists they left their keys with a particular grandchild, in a particular room, on a particular day, and gets every detail wrong except that keys were involved. That kind of ...

Whether someone is the life of the party or the one who reads the room before speaking, science has long assumed personality comes down mostly to upbringing and life experience. A massive new genetic ...

Every few months, a major artist drops a new album, and millions of fans reach for their phones to stream it. That moment of excitement, it turns out, may come with a hidden cost. A new study in JAMA ...

Chest pain strikes without warning. An ambulance rushes the patient to the hospital, and doctors immediately suspect a heart attack. The usual next step is invasive: threading a catheter into the ...

When a new prescription lands on a pharmacy counter, the assumption is that it went through years of testing, checked and rechecked before ever reaching a shelf. That assumption isn’t as safe as it ...

An aging parent who spends the day in a dim living room, curtains half-drawn, lamps left off until evening, might be quietly working against their own health. A new study of 202 older adults across ...

For thousands of years, death didn’t always mean leaving home. Across ancient cultures worldwide, people buried their dead beneath house floors, within courtyards, or close to where they lived. Today, ...

Every road trip involves picking a passenger. For a growing share of American pet owners, that seat is spoken for, and it is not going to the spouse, the best friend, or the sibling who splits gas ...

For decades, autism has been treated as a condition that mostly affects boys. New research suggests that idea is falling apart, and fast, at least when it comes to how many women and girls are now ...

Lycopene has long taken credit for the tomato’s reputation as a health food. But new research out of Tufts University points to a colorless, overlooked relative of lycopene called phytoene, and the ...

Cutting the moldy spot off a peach and eating the rest feels like plain kitchen sense. It seems careful, even frugal. But a new survey from Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) ...

A person who spent decades in a demanding career, kept up a challenging hobby, or stayed in school longer tends to remember things more accurately in old age, according to new research out of Italy.