More than half of 18 to 34-year-olds feel that reality TV and social media have a negative effect on how they see their bodies, a survey has found.

Higher maternal consumption of alcohol aligned with lower nonverbal reasoning in 6-and 7-year-olds who had breastfed.

This Viewpoint reviews advances in the surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of influenza since the 1918 pandemic, and identifies key clinical questions to address in advance of the next outbreak, including optimal treatment for hospitalized and criti…

Youth-friendly programs are extremely important for transgender children.

A world-first study concludes men can and do suffer from postcoital dysphoria (PCD) which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex. While the condition had been recognized in women, no studies had previously identified …

Join Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Sarah Rose Siskind as they answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries about our collision course with the Andromeda galaxy, how the Big Bang got its name, the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, dark matter, and m…

Aerodynamics, Newton’s Laws, drafting, power to weight ratio, nutrition, technology and more! Get smarter about the Tour de France with hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly and their guests Lance Armstrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson and sports physicist John E…

Billions of years ago, Mars probably hosted many water features: streams, rivers, gullies, etc. But until recently, water detected on the Red Planet was either locked up in ice or flitting about as a gas in the atmosphere. Now, researchers analyzing ra…

This Viewpoint compares the strengths and weaknesses of precision-medicine and preventive-medicine models for treating disease driven by genetics and disease driven by lifestyle and toxic environments.

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is a feeling of calmness and serenity that begins as a tingling in the head and works its way down the spine.