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 ...

ATHENS, Greece — A groundbreaking new study has reignited the debate over whether political ideology is linked to brain structure. While previous research suggested that conservatives have larger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Claw-like hands, smaller brains, and 90-degree elbows? It sounds as ridiculous as it looks, but these researchers suggest it’s possible CERRITOS, Calif. — Hunched back, clawed-hands, and second ...

Eating flavanol-rich foods like dark chocolate or berries may boost memory performance. How? By synchronizing stress hormones with the brain’s natural window for locking in new information, according ...

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 ...

Coconut oil has long had a place in kitchens and beauty products, but researchers are now making a serious case for putting it in jet engines. New research found that aviation biofuel made from ...

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 — If the emoji movie wasn’t symbolic enough of today’s youth, perhaps this will rattle your foundation: 7 in 10 millennials and the younger Gen Z prefer to communicate digitally — mostly by ...