habits

I’ve watched my parents navigate their seventies with a mix of grace, humor, and humility. My dad still gets up early to walk along the beach, binoculars in hand, scanning the treetops for birds. My mum still laughs loudly, cooks…

Most adults do not need a hard eight hours of sleep; a growing body of evidence and evolutionary research suggest the optimal nightly sleep for many healthy adults is closer to seven hours, with health risks rising on either side of that…

A leading cardiologist has warned that some everyday habits could be silently putting people at risk of developing a deadly aortic aneurysm.Dr Evan Levine, a board-certified cardiologist from Scarsdale, New York, has shared a viral…

5. "I'm a registered nurse. If you're visiting the hospital with a baby, toddler, or any small child, NEVER let them crawl on any floor in the hospital! It might look very clean, but it's…

5. "I'm a registered nurse. If you're visiting the hospital with a baby, toddler, or any small child, NEVER let them crawl on any floor in the hospital! It might look very clean, but it's…

By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, US CHIEF REPORTER and SHAWN COHEN and NATASHA ANDERSON, SENIOR US NEWS REPORTER Updated: 14:49 EDT, 12 September 2025 <!-- --> <!-- -->…

A medical phenomenon known as Cuomo’s Paradox is challenging conventional wisdom about disease and survival.Named for the biomedical scientist Raphael E Cuomo, it describes the counterintuitive finding where a factor, such as alcohol…

We all know them. The people who make you do a double-take when they mention their age. Not because they've had work done, but because they seem to have negotiated a better deal with time. They move like they're younger, their…

We all know them. The people who make you do a double-take when they mention their age. Not because they've had work done, but because they seem to have negotiated a better deal with time. They move like they're younger, their…

Super Stimulated by Nicklas Brendborg (Hodder £22, 304pp)So why do we form bad habits – and deliberately do so, too, when we are meant to be creatures intelligent enough to know better?As the young Danish scientist Nicklas Brendborg has…