We all like to imagine we're aging well. Now a simple blood or saliva test promises to tell us by measuring our "biological ...

A foundational idea in self-determination theory is that we have three basic psychological needs: for autonomy, competence ...

How good are biological age tests? Do they actually offer useful insights? Or are they just clever marketing dressed up to look like science?

In a new study, participants who needed more assistance to perform a simple fitness test had a higher risk of death. Here's ...

This “sitting to rising” test is backed up by new research, which found that middle-aged adults who could sit down on the floor and stand back up with no or little assistance from their hands or knees ...

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the University of Cambridge create a test to predict resistance to chemotherapy. The test uses changes to cancer DNA at diagnosis to predict which patients will ...

Chemotherapy seeks to destroy tumor cells and has been a standard treatment for cancer for decades. However, it doesn't ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t the first president to order military strikes without congressional approval. But his ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

The Barnum effect refers to a tendency, demonstrated decades ago, for people to believe false feedback about their personalities. New research shows that nothing has changed.

Calls to reprioritize standardized tests in college admissions have sparked debate over the merits of the exams.

Among participants initially diagnosed with heart disease, those with low scores on the test were more likely to have died by ...