It's official -- the Army will now assess body fat using a tape measurement around the waist only. The service announced Monday it has simplified one of the key ways it judges soldier physical fitness ...

The ability to move with speed, precision and power is important for longevity. Here’s how to gauge it and how to improve.

Fall is in the air, as we settle into familiar routines – school and swim practices resuming, sweaters and apple or pumpkin flavoured sweets everywhere, and beginning to set our goals for the season ...

A new paper from Jamil Maroun and Christopher Tienken sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. The answer, it ...

A simple tape-measure test is helping pediatricians more accurately determine if a child is at risk for diabetes. In adults, a measure of waist size and analysis of body type - apple vs. pear-shaped - ...

The "marshmallow test" invented by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and colleagues in the 1960s is famously known as a measure of willpower. The experiment gave preschoolers the option of either ...

Insulation failure is the root cause of many electrical conductors and equipment failures. When insulation fails, not only can equipment be damaged, but fire and shock can also result. Ideally, when ...

LOS ANGELES & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Los Angeles- and Raleigh-based Gemelli Biotech announced the launch of a novel breath test called trio-smart™ that provides a more complete fermented gas ...

It wasn't that long ago that the only way to test for Alzheimer's disease was to perform an autopsy on someone who had been suffering from dementia to look for the telltale tangles of tau and amyloid ...