Elana Spivack

If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. It seems at once fair game to ask about an impossible thing to answer: How well does the brain fair with age?

The American Stroke Association, part of the American Heart Association, updated its Guideline for the Prevention of Primary Stroke for the first time in a decade. Published today in the journal Stroke, the new guidelines outline sex-specific factors including pregnancy, hormonal contraception, menopause, and endometriosis.

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown city of the Maya empire.

In people with alcohol use disorder, exercise improves health across the board.

With the end of daylight savings time, eating your meals at the same time and setting a consistent wake-up time can help ease the transition into shorter days.

A veterinarian explains that while cats aren't liquid, their skeletal structure affords them incredible flexibility to hunt, hide, and navigate tight spaces.

British sugar rationing during World War II created a population of babies who grew up with reduced sugar consumption, revealing lower risk for chronic conditions.

Diet Coke’s intense sweetness, caloric emptiness, and caffeine content hacks our most innate neurological and psychological responses to keep us unconsciously reaching for another bottle.

An astronomer describes how the moon's surface temperature changes.

Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history?