Forget walking 10,000 steps a day. Taking at least 50 steps up the stairs each day could significantly slash your risk of heart disease, according to a new study from Tulane University.

Researchers studied a cohort of 400 children aged 9 to 10 in New Zealand who exhibited a full range of possible autism traits and conducted a variety of vision and visuomotor processing tests with them.

Once celebrated as a symbol of modern innovation, plastic has become the boon and bane of our time.

Working consistently in an occupation with medium or high occupational physical activity was linked to an increased risk of cognitive impairment, according to a new study by the Norwegian National Centre of Ageing and Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health,and the Butler Columbia Aging Center.

Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun.

Japan has a plastic problem. Thanks in part to an overabundance of packaging, the country is the second largest producer of plastic waste per capita.

As the planet gets hotter, the need for cool living environments is becoming more urgent.

A groundbreaking study has provided pivotal new insights into the extensive impact of metal mining contamination on rivers and floodplains across the world.

Researchers from Syracuse University and the University of Minnesota find that warming trends will likely result in major disturbances of networks of fungi potentially harming forest resilience.

People experiencing a high degree of social vulnerability are also more exposed to wildfires in Oregon and Washington as wildfire risk increases, a new study shows.