Strolls with stops use more energy than continuous walking, scientists show

Researchers show more energy needed to get going than later in walks when body is working more efficiently

Breast milk for adults: wellness elixir or unscientific fascination?

Researchers have found more promising ways the infant food can benefit health – aside from being a nutritional supplement and supposed hangover cure

The world’s healthiest lovers? Meet the couple aiming to live to 150

They wake before dawn, take turns in a hyperbaric chamber, eat dinner at 5.30 and go to bed by 9. Is it really worth it?

The big idea: how to use your senses to help beat depression

Our research suggests that it’s not sadness per se that leads to poor mental health, but shutting down input from the body. ‘Sense foraging’ offers a way out of the trap

‘Weekend warrior’ workouts may be as effective as daily exercise, study shows

Scientists say total amount of physical activity people get is more important than how frequently they train

‘I definitely got a little loopy’: the writer who spent a week underground studying sleep

Lynne Peeples on the ways modern life interferes with our circadian rhythms – and what we can do to sleep better

Scans capture sweeping reorganisation of brain in pregnancy

MRIs taken from before conception until two years after birth show some short-lived changes and some lasting years

New screening trial could save thousands from prostate cancer

The £42m Transform project aims to find the best way to catch the disease in men in its early stages

What causes snoring, is it dangerous and how can it be treated?

Scientists say an epilepsy drug could reduce sleep apnoea symptoms, but how else can snoring be tackled?

Push to improve syphilis testing in US as disease makes dramatic comeback

Cases have risen 80% in the last five years, and the US now has the highest syphilis rates since 1950