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Much of the general public doesn't experience death very often. Many doctors, on the other hand, do. Researchers with the End-of-life Care Research Group in Belgium wondered how this intimate ...

We all know how much better we feel after a good night's sleep. Science backs this up: high-quality sleep boosts cardiovascular health, immune function, brain health and emotional wellbeing ...

Hydrogen is often thought to be linchpin of a future 100% renewable economy. To make up for wind and solar's deal-breaking intermittency and to rid industry of energy-dense fossil fuels, the surplus ...

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become public enemy number one in nutrition debates. From dementia to obesity and an epidemic of "food addiction", these factory-made products, including ...

It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people's warm-up, or someone strolling so gently it barely seems like exercise at all ...

Exercise is a cornerstone of good health and evidence shows it can even help prevent cancers returning following treatment. But new findings are raising an unexpected question: could very ...

A recent study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry claims to offer reassuring news to hundreds of millions of people who are taking, or considering taking, antidepressants: Withdrawal from the ...

The irreproducibility crisis of modern science--the failure of large proportions of scientific research to produce true results--just keeps on going. In November, a survey of 1,924 biomedical ...

The recent report released by Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the climate impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. has caused quite a stir in the climate science arena. "Outrage,"

Despite drastically declining rates of smoking, cigarette butts remain the most common form of litter in the world. The world's 1.3 billion smokers produce an estimated 4.5 trillion smoked cigarette ...