Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

Younger Americans express less trust in democratic institutions, weaker attachment to political parties, greater skepticism about how the political system works than older generations, and are less ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Ricky Gervais appeared to laugh at this year’s crop of Grammy winners for their politically-charged speeches, taking to X after the 2026 ceremony to share an excerpt from his 2020 Golden Globes ...

Thinking of political violence solely as a safety issue is not enough to address the harm that follows. “The patient is the community.” Protesters gather in front of the Federal Building at the ...

A majority of Americans blame artificial intelligence-generated misinformation and political leaders’ failure to condemn violent language from their supporters for the political violence in society, ...

Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, which are infection and tumor-fighting white blood cells, so that they have a ...

El Helicoide, a brutalist complex sitting atop a hill in central Caracas, is known as one of Latin America’s most notorious detention centers. Built as a shopping mall in the nineteen-fifties, the ...

Every holiday season brings with it the same warning: Unless everyone is on the same political side, leave your politics at the door. And every few years, I write another article explaining that ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety. Yet in a bizarre move, Waymo — whose self-driving cabs had been enjoying extraordinary safety metrics — has ...

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