Say you’re mingling at a cocktail party, networking event, singles mixer or church reception. Some exchanges are pleasant enough. Others are taxing, if not downright painful. Then you get lucky and ...

Researchers came to Dr. Chris Knowles’ school in England when he was 18 years old to run an experiment. They wanted to see which novice drinkers responded the most to alcohol and who would later go on ...

You're back in school and suddenly have to take a test, despite not having been present to learn any of the material. Your teeth are suddenly falling out. You run into an acquaintance you haven't seen ...

I'm upgrading from MPY 1.25 + IDF 5.3 to MPY 1.26.1 + IDF 5.4.2, for ESP32C3. I built my MPY firmware. Using a lot of custom code in usermod. Using strings micropython.bin command, I found that newly ...

Researchers are seeing an uptick in cases, as they have every summer since the pandemic began. Here’s why. By Dani Blum Covid cases are climbing again this summer. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

John Drury received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (reference ES/N01068X/1). Some of the work described here was funded by the Behavioural Research UK Leadership Hub, which is ...

It’s the end of an era in late night television. As the studio audience began to express their disappointment by booing, Colbert said, “I share your feelings.” “It’s not just the end of our show, but ...

IT IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate memories, repair cells and boost the health of their immune systems. But the ...

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories—narratives that attempt to explain events or phenomena without strong empirical evidence? These beliefs can seem puzzling, but they aren’t random.

Trump signed an executive order to lower drug costs by tying the prices of some medicines in the U.S. to the significantly lower ones abroad. A 2024 report by the RAND Corporation found that drug ...

With all of that turmoil in the IRS, any taxpayer still waiting on a refund may worry their tax return got lost in the shuffle. The good news is that the IRS is still processing tax returns and ...