Since the very beginning, Mental Floss has been dedicated to dredging up fascinating facts from across a broad range of topics—we’ve covered everything from strange animal stories to weird historical ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced ...

What started as a normal interaction with a neighbor walking the dog turned into wet chaos when the canine waltzed into a person's backyard to steal a dip in the pool. A TikTok video posted by ...

Getting back into exercise after illness can be challenging. Tips for returning to exercise after being sick include starting at home, keeping hydrated, and avoiding overexertion. People who want to ...

Physical therapist and strength coach Susie Spirlock, DPT, played sports and exercised her whole life. “I placed a large part of my identity in what I could do in the gym,” she tells SELF. But after ...

New research reveals that exercise doesn't just benefit muscles or the heart—it triggers a cascade of molecular and cellular changes across nearly every organ in the body. In a sweeping study of rats, ...

Let’s start thinking differently about exercise. Here’s how we know. Animal exercise studies typically run rats for weeks on running wheels. The animals gleefully run every night, sprinting several ...

Physical activity improves cognitive and mental health in all sorts of ways. Here’s why, and how to reap the benefits. By Dana G. Smith Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always ...

Exercise can’t cure Alzheimer’s, but it can slow its progression and improve your quality of life. And while there’s no definitive way to prevent Alzheimer’s, exercise may reduce your risk. Aerobic ...

This is part three of our four-part series of stories exploring stress, the nuances that come with the psychological and physiological response and its relationship with running. Read part four here.

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In the real world, probability is a tough thing to characterize. If I roll a die, what does it mean to say that it has a one-sixth chance of coming up 5? We say that the outcome is random because we ...