Recent research has shown that social status does not necessarily confer class or translate to people who behave well. Members of the upper class tend to behave worse than anyone else.

A recent study, which took place at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, shows that differences of opinion between parents and teens are totally normal, but the way a parent handles them can potentially benefit or harm the child.

Researchers at the University of Milan have discovered that the degrees of separation between two random people anywhere in the world has fallen from 6 to 4.74.

A recent study has found that children who often head a soccer ball are at risk for developing a brain injury. For kids on a team who practice and play several times a week, heading the ball is part of their training, and they may do quite a bit of it.

Obesity statistics in the US convey a sad story:  more than two-thirds of all adults over the age of 20 now qualify as overweight or obese.  Yet, in spite of the endless array of available diet programs, products, and the constant media coverage highlighting the dangers of being overweight, we keep getting fatter and fatter, with obesity rates still on the climb. While many blame a willpower deficit for the failure of 95 percent of all diet attempts, a series of new studies has shed some light on a few other possible reasons that all the diet knowledge in the universe doesn't seem to be making a dent.

Researchers have found that young blood rejuvenates old bodies. Now, new evidence suggests that young blood may also make the brain young again.

If you have taken an IQ test at some point in your life, whether at school or through an evaluation, the number you achieved way back when may not be the same number you would score today.  That's because IQs can change over the years, according to new research.  So instead of an IQ score being a benchmark of fixed intelligence that can be used as a predictor of success, it is really just a measurement of one "type" of intelligence at a randomly chosen point in time.

In the early 1980s, 117 healthy, young immigrants from Laos died in their sleep. What they shared in common was a belief that night spirits were able to kill them. In other words, it was their belief in the power of their nightmares that killed them.

A study, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, found that women who drink four or more cups of coffee every day have less of a chance of developing depression than those who drink only one cup or fewer.