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"Daily political events consistently evoked negative emotions [which] predicted worse day-to-day psychological and physical health, but also greater motivation to take action aimed at changing the...
A window into complex avian sociopolitical lives.
German media are reporting that IT experts investigating a cyberattack that paralyzed computer systems at a major hospital in western Germany say one of the trails they are following leads to Russia
In an era of aspirational minimalism, two new books reveal the meaning latent in the junk we collect.
Why are women paying these dudes to post photos of their butts?
With a pandemic looming, the US president announced a warp-speed effort to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country. The mistakes that followed hold lessons for today.
In an age thick with anger and fear, we might dream of a purely rational politics but it would be a denial of our humanity
New Forbes 400 member Sheldon Lavin owns OSI Group, the behind-the-scenes food supplier that makes McDonald’s hamburgers, Chipotle’s carnitas, Oscar Meyer’s hot dogs and even Burger King’s...
The functional ability of older people is nowadays better when it is compared to that of people at the same age three decades ago. This was observed in a study conducted at the Faculty of Sport...
Even those who don’t pray to a higher power still usually have some belief in how the world works that gives them a sense of safety and security.
How HappyOrNot changed customer feedback
The Iron Curtain escapee, DIY aviator, and thriving entrepreneur is ready for anything.
Spooked by plummeting advertising revenue, content creators are hoping that loyal fans will pay up to watch their videos.
Beijing is unlikely to approve an "unfair" deal Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, state-backed newspaper Global Times...
The city, where the global pandemic is believed to have started, is returning to normal as authorities claim there has not been a case of community transmission since May
CAPTCHAs have evolved to reflect the untenable distinction between real and fake users
Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
A company called Civvl says evicting people is the "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19."
It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the...
Today, the utopian is whoever believes that everything can just keep going as before
Jim O'Neill, former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, pointed to the latest Chinese consumer spending data as a sign of China's accelerating recovery
Still to this day, every time I pee, I pee with a smile. It brings so much joy in me
Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may.
Battery prices are dropping faster than expected. Analysts are moving up projections of when an electric vehicle won’t need government incentives to be cheaper than a gasoline model.
A two-part series from Alex Gibney attempts to definitively explain Russian interference, from troll factories to hacking to a mutual ‘seduction’ of greed
Kit Kat is big in Japan. From cheesecake to wasabi to purple sweet potato, the crispy wafer bar is available in more than 400 varieties, according to Yuji Ta...
In 1930, a new pistol went on sale that would revolutionize the firearms world. Best known to the public these days as the "James Bond gun", the Walther PPK was arguably the first successful...
US announces sanctions on Iran, Venezuela's Maduro under 'UN' authority as UNGA gets under way.
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Now a relatively quiet fishing village, Port Royal was once so notorious that it was considered by many to be ‘the wickedest city on Earth’ – until it sank into the sea.
Do companies and cities still need each other?
How wildfires ravaging the U.S. west coast are sending smoke between continents and up to record heights in the atmosphere.
These neurons track safe places so mice can escape threats in a split-second
We break down what they are—and why they’re not (quite) as scary as they seem.