Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence. Here’s how to check them yourself—and what the results mean. Balancing on ...

Procter & Gamble’s newest soap opera doesn’t look anything like the sudsy dramas it has produced in the past. The consumer-products giant behind household staples like Tide, Crest and Pampers has been ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

We've released our list of 100 Notable Books. (You can read it in full here!) Browsing a list of 100 books is exciting, but can be overwhelming. Want to find one to read right away? We can help! Here ...

Shares of Bath & Body Works took an historic dive Thursday, after the personal-care and home-fragrance retailer reported a big fiscal third-quarter profit miss and slashed its full-year outlook. At ...

A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into the body. The technology could allow doctors to administer small amounts of ...

Researchers in Osaka have found that stem cells from fat tissue can repair spinal fractures similar to those caused by osteoporosis. By turning these cells into bone-forming clusters and pairing them ...

One of the most fascinating bits of alchemy that happens in a studio is how a non-musical note from a producer can turn into a goosebump-inducing, time-defying moment on a record, which is precisely ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics. In the mid-19th century, the Belgian physicist ...

The trick then became how to bring Matt into Sharon and Nick’s orbit once again. Continues the scribe, “I started thinking, ‘What if there was a way to pull [Nick and Sharon] into a new arena that ...

Motion smoothing has a bad reputation among most cinephiles, as well as many home theater enthusiasts and content creators. Also known as motion or video interpolation, motion smoothing is available ...

The return to "standard time" is better for our health according to sleep scientists, but the time change can be disruptive, and our bodies must also adjust to more hours of darkness as we head ...