Pushy parents have fuelled an environment in which schools feel they must give lots of homework, says education consultant Kathy Walker. She believes it is unnecessary for five-year-olds. "The best ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Courtesy Kerry Burnight People around the world collectively spend billions of dollars each year on products and services designed to extend their lives.

The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...

People have been obsessed with cheating death for millennia, but until recently, little had been understood about how to extend life—or if it was even possible. Scientists now say they are getting ...

When they switched to a four-day school week, Saydel reduced their 30% leave rate down to 24% at the end of the first year, ...