I usually disregard it when I hear people complaining about the high cost of gasoline because I know that the number posted at the pump does not reflect the true cost anyway.

Drawing on the results of several other studies concerning memory and dementia, and longevity and happiness, they designed an experiment involving a series of tasks with before-and-after questions to measure the speed and richness with which participants could recall events ...

One team I was watching, in week one of the season, lost five starters for the whole year in the two-week period between their final pre-season game and their first regular-season game, so they were done before they even got going. In another game later that same day ...

In last week’s column, I made mention of what a big football fan I am and how much of it I’ve already watched in this young new season.

Autumn is harvest time, which means one thing in the church or the classroom but something else out in the fields, where it demands long hours and hard work picking, gathering, bottling, canning, sorting, storing, selling ...

I joined the Space Futures Society and the L-5 Society, two organizations dedicated to getting people living and working in outer space, and again, I thought, "I could do that. I could live in a space ... 

Hypocrisy is widespread, and it is neither the exclusive domain of the right or the left, the old or the young, the educated or the uninformed.

It occurred to me, right away, that the crawling creature was a messenger, and I made a mental note to later look up the meaning of tarantulas ...

What the researchers found is that our alerting skills tend to fall off past the age of about 58, but our orientation and executive function skills continue to improve well into our senior years, likely because ...

Unlike insomniacs, who also get very little sleep but seem to be miserable in always wanting more, these people were perfectly happy and functioned at a high level with few hours of sleep...