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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hearing a voice when no one is there. Feeling an overwhelming sense of love or awe with no clear cause. Sensing the presence of something, or someone, that cannot be seen. Millions of people worldwide ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

With the exception of “Quality of City Services” score, all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that city, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric ...

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 ...

There was a time when the average American’s supplement routine was simple. A multivitamin in the morning, maybe a vitamin C tablet during cold season, and nothing more. Those days are gone. A new ...

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 ...