The Sterling Heights Nature Center in Dodge Park is one of Macomb County’s best-kept secrets. Visitors who amble through the center daily see all kinds of mammals, countless birds, a variety of trees ...

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 ...

Exercise does more than strengthen muscles; it also rewires the brain. In a study published in Neuron, researchers reveal that the lasting gain in endurance from repeated exercise—such as the ability ...

Like junkies without drugs, mice without running wheels crave what they lack, suggesting that some animals can develop an addiction for exercise, report scientists in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal ...

Today, where I am, it is cold and gray and rainy. When I glance over at my three—yes, three—cats (I adopted a mama and her babies about three months after my beloved 15-year-old cat went to a lovely ...

Regular exercise helped lab mice remain psychologically resilient even when their lives seemed filled with threats. By Gretchen Reynolds Exercise makes it easier to bounce back from too much stress, ...