A minute goes by pretty quickly—and a New York minute seems to go by even quicker. But what happens in 60 seconds? A whole lot of interesting things, apparently, from babies being born to earthquakes ...

For nearly eight years, I spent almost every day sitting behind a wall of computer screens. I was a high-frequency trader, and my job was to create algorithms that would trade billions of dollars in ...

Four seconds of intense intervals, repeated until they amount to a minute of total exertion, led to rapid improvements in strength and fitness in middle-aged and older adults. By Gretchen Reynolds In ...