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Study: Skydiving Not Relaxing
Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
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Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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In the era of instant gratification, the unexpected success of "the hardest workout ever put on DVD"
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
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Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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