Research led by Lauren Ball, Pui Ting Wong (Pearl) (The University of Queensland) and Emily Burch (Southern Cross University) Let’s explore what’s in an average pack, what that means for our health, ...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — From endless traffic to nonstop construction, if you live in a busy city, the noise is inescapable. While you may think your headache is worse than anyone else’s, a new ...

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 ...

Detroit tops the list, while South Burlington, Vermont, can proudly call itself the least-stressed city this year. MIAMI — Working 50+ hours a week while watching rent consume half your paycheck has ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — For almost half of all Americans, modesty may not be their best quality. A new study finds nearly one in two people believe they’re the best person they know. In a recent survey of 2,000 ...

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 ...

Researchers tracked the real-time phone habits of middle and high schoolers and found something that should give every school administrator pause. Phone activity showed up across the sample during ...

Scientists have created a wearable sensor that attaches to your underwear and tracks your gut bacteria in real time by measuring the hydrogen gas in your flatulence. And no, that’s not a setup for a ...

LONDON — Here’s one more reason that a daily walk after waking up can do wonders for your health. Grabbing just 30 seconds of sunlight every morning could slash the chances of developing most types of ...