MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — From endless traffic to nonstop construction, if you live in a busy city, the noise is inescapable. While you may think your headache is worse than anyone else’s, a new ...

If an honest profession is defined by the integrity of the workers, then what is a dishonest profession? Is it a collection of dishonest workers? Is it a job where the tasks are completed more easily ...

ROLLA, Mo. — In 2024, after living together for five years, a Spanish-Dutch artist married her partner—a holographic artificial intelligence. She isn’t the first to forge such a bond. In 2018, a ...

Something is going wrong for middle-aged Americans, and most of the wealthy world doesn’t share the problem. A new review of research spanning multiple countries and generations has found that ...

There’s a reason a grandparent’s record collection feels so different from what’s topping the charts today, and it goes beyond sound. Over the past six decades, the words woven into popular music have ...

Friendships have ended over it. Family dinners have gotten awkward and stayed that way. For a growing number of Americans, politics hasn’t just created tension; it has cost them relationships entirely ...

For most of the 20th century, a quiet assumption ran through American life: each generation would outlive the one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives. It held true, decade after ...

Viagra has been quietly racking up a second résumé. Best known for treating erectile dysfunction, sildenafil turns out to have a separate, previously unrecognized effect inside cancer cells: it ...

A new experiment asked college students to sit quietly outdoors for 10 minutes while different sounds played through their headphones, then measured how stressed, emotionally drained, or mentally ...

Most people assume more time at the gym means more benefit. A major new study published in Cell Reports Medicine complicates that idea. Three minutes of all-out effort, spread across six 30-second ...

NEW YORK — For almost half of all Americans, modesty may not be their best quality. A new study finds nearly one in two people believe they’re the best person they know. In a recent survey of 2,000 ...

ATLANTA — Magic mushrooms could be the unexpected fountain of youth. A groundbreaking study reveals that psilocybin, the mind-altering compound found in these fungi, might do more than produce ...