You can reclaim control of your attention by putting physical and psychological distance between you and your device.

Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.

From Oregon to New Hampshire, consider these rail options for an autumn escape.

A notoriously stubborn agricultural waste product, rice husk is now being repurposed as a sturdy and resilient construction material.

Florida’s Deltona High becomes the first to adopt a high-tech system to prevent mass shootings.

Online, diagnoses often come first. That’s dangerous.

Closure rates were almost the same between urban and rural hospitals.

Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.

People are installing tiny doors that connect garages to kitchens.

Fresh food, locally made goods, and more, all under one roof, are coming to Omaha. Monday night, Heritage gave us a first look at what the new Public Market in downtown Omaha will look like.

Interest in fertility treatments is down—even if the actual procedures are booming.

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.

Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.

The arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry from France has sparked a class war in England.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.

Pen pals — ones you’ve never met in person — are part of the revival of all things analog. There are even matchmakers prepared to find you one.

An informal network of hackers and researchers is exposing new details about misbehaving AI that meddled with corporate and government websites.

Eating fibre can improve health, lengthen lifespans, and even protect our brains. Yet many of us are still coming up short on this "essential nutrient".

Maladaptive daydreaming, obsessional jealousy and misophonia are now topics of study as social media trends force psychiatrists to rethink their diagnostic “bible.”

The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.

Drugmakers are targeting muscle preservation and fat loss as they build the next generation of weight-loss medications.

Recognizing estrangement gives patients an opportunity to consider what they want to leave behind

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Employees and recruiters weigh into the online debate around interview etiquette.

A new study identified more than 1 million people taking weight-loss drugs without any apparent medical reason to do so.

Past Booker winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the nominees for this year's award.

“The currency of success is shifting under our feet,” says the Wharton organizational psychologist.

Caterpillar’s newest landfill machinery doesn’t need a human in the operator’s cab.

“Father Time always wins,” the 96-year-old, who turned Berkshire Hathaway into an investing powerhouse, said in a letter to shareholders.

South Korea has cut household food waste going to landfill from 97% to almost nothing. New York City has started sending its scraps the same way.

What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel?

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

Putting our hands in soil and touching grass, trees or moss provides a wide range of health benefits, for our skin and wider immune system.

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.

Just two hours of extra sleep can help reverse the damage from a bad night. But early nights and lie-ins should be wielded with caution.

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

70 Up is the final instalment in a series which began in 1964 and has followed the lives of 14 people.

The increasing popularity of September and October travel has changed the traditional shoulder season, leaving sporadic midweek troughs and a few weeks in November.

The lack of clear rules and norms is breeding distrust among co-workers. Here’s how companies can help.

On Thursday, the British Museum opened its blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, its most eagerly anticipated show in decades.