Bakersfield, California, built its reputation on oil wells and farm fields. A new ranking says it has become something else, too: the top logistics boomtown in the United States. In an analysis of 131 ...

Sleeping under five hours a night is supposed to take a toll. Yet some people in a new study did exactly that, night after night, and showed no clear warning signs in their health. Others who logged a ...

Bones and brains may seem unrelated, yet a new study finds they may age on the same clock. Adults with weaker bones in their upper spine lost thinking skills faster over the next several years, and ...

Research led by Indunil C. Senanayake, Fuqiang Yu (Yunnan Key Laboratory for Fungal Diversity and Green Development and Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South ...

A repairman carelessly leaves a door open, and an 85-year-old woman’s new puppy escapes. He apologizes with the words “I wish I didn’t leave the door open.” In one version of the story, he says them ...

Stroke, not mouth cancer, turns out to be the single biggest health consequence of chewing tobacco, according to a massive new global study that tracked the habit across 204 countries. Researchers ...

A collapsed fruit fly colony in a New Jersey lab has led researchers to a smell that sends one of fruit farming’s most destructive pests packing. Two scent compounds tied to a yeast found during the ...

Teenagers who spent more than six hours on a weekday gaming, chatting or browsing at age 15 went on to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety at more than three times the rate of lighter users, ...

A single handful of pistachios delivers nearly 40 percent of the vitamin B6 a person needs in a day, more than any other tree nut, and the body uses that vitamin to make brain chemicals that regulate ...

Venomous snakes are far more likely to stand out against their natural surroundings than their non-venomous relatives, according to a new study that compared 458 species using photos pulled from the ...

For a food that brain-health diets tell people to limit, cheese keeps landing on an unexpected side of the dementia research: the lower-risk side. Studies in Sweden and Finland have linked heavier ...

Most of us have had this experience at one point or another: a chorus loops during an ordinary task, seemingly without permission. Researchers call this involuntary musical imagery, meaning music that ...