From eating and motorbike riding while asleep to corks in the bed as a cure for restless legs – a neurologist’s casebook

Throughout the country, librarians are grappling with how to preserve book culture while ensuring that knowledge — whether in print or digital form — is widely accessible.

Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Elementary school usually held my attention until about April, when I’d start getting fidgety. The new flowers were beckoning outside the classroom window, their showy petals unfurling to the sun. …

Welcome to Shhh…Secrets of the Librarians, a new series (inspired by our long-running Secrets of the Book Critics) in which bibliothecaries (yes, it’s a real word) from around the country share their…

Rather than establishing a set of rigorous habits, we may need to rethink our approach to life in general.

PFAS are a family of chemicals accumulating in the soil, rivers, drinking water and the human body. How much exposure to these substances in clothes, firefighting foam and food wrap is too much?

A small group of wild and feuding talents upended the whole idea of television comedy 50 years ago. Maybe we need another bout of the same irreverence.

Do eggs raise your cholesterol? The advice keep changing.

Religious beliefs differ from empirical beliefs, which are based on how the world appears to be

HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines helped convert a sleepy Texas town into a tourist mecca. But not everyone agrees on what Waco’s “restoration” should look like.

Oxford don champions children’s books as figures show that sales to adults are soaring

Mere months before the shooting at Columbine High School, the federal government established a background check system to screen gun buyers but shootings haven't waned.

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

New research shows how social schedules and biological rhythms come into conflict along time zone borders.

Users of this electrified cap claim that it permanently changed their brains.

Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication.

The organization’s leadership is focussed on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal.

It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

A noninvasive technique shows promise in improving the working memory of older adults. But, the scientists note, “Do not try this at home!”

Scientists are getting closer to understanding why exercise makes us feel good. (It’s more than endorphins.)

The workout giant is changing at-home exercise — and spawning a flurry of copycats

YouTube’s C.E.O. spends her days contemplating condoms and bestiality, talking advertisers off the ledge and managing a property the size of Netflix.

My patient had a simple, devastating request. To honor it meant grappling with how a therapist responds to her clients.