“I just wondered ‘what is it of their business?’”

A large study of drinking habits in 195 countries contradicts widely shared advice on healthy drinking.

Thanks to student loan debt, rising rents and stagnant wages, more millennials are living at home with their parents than at any other point this century. More than one in five adults, or 22 percent of millennial Americans, are either staying home or ...

University of Oklahoma Professor Samuel L. Perry just published a book called Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants all about this topic. In an interview with the New Yorker‘s Isaac Chotiner, he sheds some light on ho ...

Shiny and sharp, obsidian is enjoying a bit of a pop culture moment. It plays a central role in HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, now wrapping its final season. Called dragonglass on the show, obsidian is one of only two substances that can c ...

An international expert on smartphone use among young people warns the NSW government’s ban on phones in primary schools may pose new challenges for students when they leave school. Candice Odgers, a professor of psychological science at the Universi ...

Last Week, The New York Times’ editorial board endorsed the Right to Repair movement. While spurred by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) support for a farmer-focused repair bill, the Times’ board went further. “Owners of consumer electronic products ...

All light-duty cars and trucks sold in British Columbia would have to be zero-emission by 2040 under legislation tabled Wednesday.

General Mazloum Kobani Abdi led the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, forging an unlikely partnership between scrappy local militias and élite U.S. Special Forces. Then the President withdrew the American troops.

On March 28th, Salesforce, Disney, Google, Apple, and more than 300 other companies launched the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA)- the largest group of corporate renewable energy buyers in the U.S. REBA was initially formed in 2014 as a partne ...

Scientists in the US say they have discovered the fossilized remains of a mass of creatures that died minutes after a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, sealing the fate of the dinosaurs. In a paper to be published Monday, a t ...

In Silicon Valley, an open house can be more than an open house. At a six-bedroom, seven-bath home in the town of Menlo Park, a flamenco dancer swirled and a guitarist fingerpicked in a kitchen alcove. Outside, pesto pizza was pulled from the pizza o ...

A new ultrasensitive diagnostic device invented by researchers at the University of Kansas, The University of Kansas Cancer Center and KU Medical Center could allow doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma, leading to timeli ...

By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first “electron liquid” at room temperature. The achievement opens a pathway for development of the ...

If you were wondering if Henry Cavill was going to shed some muscle for his new role as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's The Witcher series -- the answer is no. In fact, he's looking as swole as ever. Today, presumably on a day off from filming ...

Energy saving is very important. Energy saving can help us in many ways such as environmentally, financially and for humanity as well. It is a collective task that requires everyone’s helping hand to make it successful. To get success in energy savin ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) received a lot of attention recently for adding a new and controversial diagnosis called gaming disorder to the latest revision of its global diagnostic system, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) ...

Twenty-nineteen could be the Year of the Magic Mushroom. In Colorado and Oregon, efforts are currently underway to get voters acquainted with and in support of psilocybin, the compound that makes magic shrooms, well, magical. Research has begun, and ...

In 1996, internationally known televangelist Ernest Angley admitted to his assistant minister that he had had sexual relations with a man who was employed by their church, Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls. The telephone conversation was tape-recorde ...

As the government shutdown stretches into the record for longest shutdown ever, key websites run by the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission are still down, leaving consumers more vulnerable. On December 28th, the FTC announ ...