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The longer a person’s telomeres, researchers found, the greater the risk of cancer and other disorders, challenging a popular hypothesis about the chromosomal roots of vitality.

The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.

Cost-cutting translations are introducing errors and putting refugees at risk.

Mental health experts worry the high cost of healthcare is driving more people to confide in OpenAI's chatbot, which often reproduces harmful biases.

Moms are laid off while on parental leave and subjected to stereotypes about their competency. But with few legal protections, attorneys say most cases go unreported.

What is it like to grieve someone whose body has a job in the afterlife?

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

In a delightful new experiment, a team of scientists was able to show that once taught how, pet parrots can and will FaceTime their parrot friends.

The people at the dog park, the bank teller, the regular waiter — these casual relationships may be “weak ties,” but they’re also a key to well-being.

Suicide rates typically go down in times of crisis. Why?

In the Belgian town of Geel, families have long taken in people with psychiatric conditions. Could this approach work elsewhere?

“I drive a nice car. People assume my husband bought it for me.”

Contrary to claims of gentle parenting influencers, timeout hasn't been found to harm kids. Used alongside other effective techniques, it can reduce oppositional behaviors.

"Love Is Blind" was supposed to be a different kind of dating show. But contestants say being on the series was traumatic: "It literally ruins lives."

Numerous reasons have been proposed for why gender inequality remains frustratingly stagnant. One persistent argument says it’s because of differences in men and women’s behavior. But do men and women act all that differently? An analysis of men and women’s behavior in one company suggests that the difference in their promotion rates wasn’t due to their behavior but to how they were treated. Women had the same number of contacts as men, they spent as much time with senior leadership, they had indistinguishable work patterns, and they scored equally in performance evaluations. Yet women weren’t advancing and men were.

A new study based on strands of hair found in a Spanish burial cave reveals that humans living about 3,000 years ago used hallucinogens, likely derived from local plants, as part of their rituals.

A proposed change to the census faces opposition from Afro-Latino groups, and exposes conflicts among Latino communities.

The Adderall shortage exposed a troubling gap in how doctors care for the disorder.

A plan to increase Los Angeles County’s psychiatric mobile crisis teams has faltered, often leaving people no choice but to turn to police during a mental health emergency.

After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced.

Mathematician Abba Gumel uses calculations and models to prepare for future disease outbreaks

Warmer temperatures helped at least 500 more long balls sail over MLB fences from 2010 to 2019, according to a study from Dartmouth College researchers.

Boundaries are important. But our relationships require a touch more compassion than some online blueprints offer.

It's shockingly easy for CPS to destroy poor, Black families.

Brain scans show that people who have had Botox injections have altered brain activity when they look at happy and angry faces, possibly because the paralysis of muscles means they can’t mimic the expressions they see

Much of dreaming remains a mystery, but scientists have some ideas as to why some people are better than others at remembering their dreams.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the LAPD’s abortion squad hunted down women getting the procedure and the people performing them.

Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.

I was braced to sit through something condescending & inaccurate at best. Instead, the show gave people with OCD the episode we've always deserved.

My dilemma was more common than you’d think.