Fiction about online life tends to mimic its dull repetition. A debut novel doesn’t quite succeed in raising the stakes—but ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain disease, that the addicted person’s brain compels them to continuously use ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...

People are now betting on everything. Prediction markets are amplifying those signals. The timing of the U.S. government shutdown. The likelihood of Taylor Swift canceling a tour date. The exact day ...

Researchers set up a makeshift bar on a college campus to test how much people wanted to drink after they smoked cannabis. By Dani Blum Countless college students have conducted the experiment: What ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation. There is a shirt currently ...

Tropical Storm Humberto and Invest 94L could merge in the Atlantic, potentially sparking a rare Fujiwhara effect forecasters say could considerably alter a storm's track, with communities unaware a ...

This satellite image, taken on Wednesday, shows two tropical waves that could develop along parallel tracks -- or potentially combine -- in the Atlantic. NASA GOES Satellite After an unseasonably long ...

Behavioral economists note that spending increases when asset values rise, known as the wealth effect. Housing asset increases often trigger a stronger wealth effect than stock market surges.