Lifestyle

Botox may do more than smooth wrinkles — research suggests paralyzing frown muscles can blunt emotional experience itself. The science of facial feedback.

A Hamburg teen forgot to mark her 16th-birthday invite private on Facebook. Some 1,500 strangers showed up — and she fled her own party.

Low-fat diets can suppress testosterone and muscle growth, but high LDL is still a heart risk. Where the cholesterol-muscle research actually lands.

From High Line yoga to Bryant Park bootcamps, NYC's free outdoor fitness classes have become a tourist attraction in their own right.

It's not just the bullied kids who sleep badly — the bullies do too. Poor sleep erodes impulse control, and behavior follows.

The Melody, a new Bronx co-op, is NYC's first building designed to fight obesity — with jazz in the stairwells and gyms indoors and out.

Co-sleeping is normal across much of the world, but the safety evidence is nuanced. Room-sharing vs bed-sharing, SIDS risk, and what research supports.

Consumer Reports ranked Jenny Craig the top commercial diet plan in 2011. The honest verdict: structure helps, but maintenance stays unsolved.

Cosmetic surgery was once overwhelmingly female. A growing share of patients are men — and the industry is courting them openly.

Meghana Athreye on the lifelong human search for God — and why every borrowed description, however beautiful, falls short of the thing itself.

Bhutan's 31-year-old king announced his engagement to Jetsun Pema, 21, before parliament — weeks after Britain's royal wedding.

Maria Shriver reportedly suspected the truth long before the LA Times broke it: how the Schwarzenegger marriage unraveled in May 2011.

A 2011 study of 357 adoptive families found marital strain at 9 months predicted babies' sleep problems at 18 months — and not the other way around.

Bubba Watson never took a golf lesson, yet won twice on Tour in 2011. What his self-taught swing says about talent and instruction.

First impressions form in seconds, and clothes do a lot of the talking. Why presentation is communication — and why the judgment it invites isn't fair.

Lemon juice is a popular kitchen remedy for acne — mildly antibacterial but risky in the sun. What the chemistry actually supports, and the caveats.

Years of dabbling in decluttering led to a bigger idea: extreme downsizing. On ruthlessness, Martha Stewart fantasies, and living with less.

Inside New Oriental's $6,100 cram course: two months, six days a week, and SAT math scores 114 points above American applicants — plus a debate about what

A University of Colorado study found fat removed by liposuction returns within a year — elsewhere. Why the body defends its total fat mass.

Blotting a greasy pizza slice or pakodas with a napkin removes a little surface oil — a few dozen calories at most. Modest, but real, and worth knowing.