Could a craving for salty chips actually be a sign of addiction? A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that could be the case. Researchers reviewed 281 studies from 36 different countries, finding that 14% of adults and 12% of
The snooze button has gotten a bad rap over the years — but a new study published in the Journal of Sleep Research suggests that snoozing doesn’t always mean losing. Researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden found that stealing that extra few
A new study found that employees are more likely to be lazy when working near or with robots versus working on their own or with a group of people. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany provided images of circuit
More than seven in ten adults have been targeted by scams in the last 12 months – being hit by an average of three a week, research has found. A study, of 2,000 adults, found 13 percent have lost money to fraud
A new study found that spending too much time on your emails might not be worth the stress. Productivity platform Slack conducted a study of 8,000 U.S.- and U.K.-based small business employees — and the results were telling. Those employees drafted an average
Pictured: An annular solar eclipse (Image: Getty Images) NASA is set to launch a trio of rockets during tomorrow’s “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse in order to study how the temporary drop in sunlight affects part of the upper atmosphere. Dubbed “Atmospheric
A new blood test could help diagnose cancer cases earlier. Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) developed a blood test to detect early onset ovarian cancer. The test, called OvaPrint, is described as a “cell-free DNA methylation liquid biopsy for
The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues about people who were more likely to die from the virus. Known as the deadliest in history, the 1918 flu pandemic — also referred to as
Dating can consist of great communication, spotty here-and-there texts or even “ghosting” — in which people ignore each other to end a relationship. Now comes a study about female frogs — and revelations about how the amphibians take “ghosting” to the next
A significant share of kids with autism tend to “outgrow” the disorder within a few years of diagnosis, a new study has found. Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital followed 213 children who were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as toddlers (between