Our mental and physical health is highly influenced by our environment. Physically, a cluttered house is dirtier, which can lead to allergies and illness. Mentally, a cluttered a house can be a symptom of, or lead to a cluttered mind, which makes it more difficult to sleep.

If you think about it, many of life’s notable moments come with a soundtrack. The music on the radio when you had your first kiss, the music sung at religious services, Pomp and Circumstance at graduation, Pachelbel’s Canon during a wedding, your favorite music to run or work out to, Military taps at funerals for veterans, the sound of a...

We’ve all got that one friend who encourages us to “smile” when that’s the last thing we want to do. But prepared to get even more annoyed because … your friend is right. When researchers from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Texas A&M pored over nearly 50 years of data—accumulated from 138 studies—they found that there is in fact...

Along with the surge in smartphone usage, we’re in the midst of a 50-year decline in the amount of sleep people are logging each night. It’s easy to see the connection when you consider that most of us sleep either with our smartphone in bed, or right next to us.