Younger moms are turning to cannabis to ease the symptoms of pregnancy, a new study finds. A research letter published in scientific journal JAMA on Dec. 26

Scientists are developing a device to detect the insect flapping its wings up to 2km away.

Employees at Microsoft Japan worked four days a week, enjoyed a three-day weekend — and got their normal, five-day paycheck. As part of the trial, the company also capped meetings at 30 minutes.

Eggs littered the sand, but there was no sign of life around or in them.

Yes, people are living longer and fertility rates are declining, but that sounds to me like full employment and a boon for the biosphere.

There are a few basic psychological tricks that phishing attacks and phone scams attempt to use against us – and the pandemic has provided the perfect environment for them.

Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.

It felt good to love again, in that big empty house. Virginia Kellner got the cat last November, around her ninety-second birthday, and now it’s always nearby. It keeps her company as she moves, bent over her walker, from the couch to the bathroom and back again. The walker has a pair of orange scissors hanging from the handlebar, for opening mail. Virginia likes the pet’s green eyes. She likes that it’s there in the morning, when she wakes up.

China has punished 27 government officials deemed responsible for last month's ultramarathon deaths, the state-run People's Daily said.

Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. An international team of astronomers observed the star, VVV-WIT-08, decreasing in brightness by a factor of 30, so that it nearly disappeared from the sky. While many stars change in brightness because they pulsate or are eclipsed by another star in a binary system, it's exceptionally rare for a star to become fainter over a period of several months and then bri...

A Times profile launched Judith Sheindlin to daytime TV dominance. To mark her final episode, journalist and subject look back on an unlikely journey.

GPs in England have been told to hand over all patient data to NHS Digital, says GP Ameen Kamlana

A YouTube channel affiliated with the Anonymous movement sharply criticized Elon Musk following his recent stance on cryptocurrencies. In a matter of hours, it has been viewed over a million times.

All Major League Baseball pitchers will be checked repeatedly and randomly for foreign substances by umpires under the plan being swiftly advanced, and perhaps implemented later the month.

Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as “industrial athletes,” and to prepare their bodies for that experience like someone training for a sporting event, according to a pamphlet obtained by Motherboard. The comparison is a troubling euphemism for a company whose workers have almost double the amount of serious injuries as the rest of the warehousing industry and who reportedly are often unable to take b...

The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value – contains several major flaws, argue researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham.

Air pollution has long been one of the most severe forms of environmental damage. Figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that air pollution kills seven million people worldwide every year. Its data also shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air that exceeds WHO guideline limits on high levels of pollutants.

According to Glassnode data, the recent drop in Bitcoin's (BTC) price from around $65,000 to as low as $30,000 did not compel long-term holders to sell. Just as BTC/USD bids were plummeting, the on-chain analytics platform reported a rise in Bitcoin reserves stored in wallets with lower unspent output.

After years of talking about it, Facebook officially released its likes-hiding option on Facebook and Instagram. Users of both apps can choose to hide the number of likes and reactions for their own posts or others on their feeds. Let's focus on Insta. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said that the hiding likes option was first created to "depressurize the experience" on the platform. But after a bunch of testing, Instagram found that user wellbeing and app usage didn't change ...

For anyone under its spell, the magic of “Friends” was how you always felt like the seventh person in the room. In the reunion, you’re just one of millions.