When I first started my fitness journey, I wanted to maximise my workout. If I was going to be sore and sweaty, I figured I might as well make the most of it.

Building fitness requires pushing your body to do more activity than it is used to. A good barometer for how hard you are exerting yourself during exercise is therefore the number of calories you burn. So, what exercise uses the most calories? It depends.

Research has consistently shown that aerobic exercises…

A complete skeleton found in a Gallo-Roman grave in western Belgium is not a Roman individual after all, but rather a bizarre mix of people spanning thousands of years.

Laid to rest on the right side with tucked-up legs, the remains feature long bones from seven unrelated Stone Age men and women – of varying ages and separated by several centuries – and the skull of a Roman woman who died…