ONS study finds wealth disparity in UK and US leading to growing health inequality

Engineers have been trying to crack this problem since the ’80s.

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What drives a person to smoke cigarettes—and keeps one out of six U.S. adults addicted to tobacco use, at a cost of 480,000 premature deaths each year despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns? What role do emotions play in this addictive behavior? Why do some smokers puff more often and more deeply or even relapse many years after they've quit? If policymakers had those answers, how could they strengthen the fight against the global smoking epidemic?

The researchers found that students who smoked had rates of clinical depression that were twice to three times higher than did their non-smoking peers.

Goop has been criticized for its questionable wellness claims, including its advertisement that jade and quartz "eggs" can be used for vaginal health.

Google AI's Jeff Dean, PyTorch's Soumith Chintala, Nvidia ML's Anima Anandkumar, Kidd Lab's Celeste Kidd, and IBM Research's Dario Gil on the future of AI.

Wage floors are still progressive, but can have unintended consequences

Amazon has warned at least two employees who publicly criticized the company’s environmental policies that they could be fired for future violations of its communications policy.

Scientists around the world compared the genomes and health changes of twin astronauts. Scott Kelly (left) flew in the International Space Station for a year while Mark Kelly stayed on Earth.

One project, called “Sharp Eyes,” will use facial recognition and artificial intelligence to analyze security videos, track suspects, spot suspicious behaviors and monitor the comings and goings of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

The Grim Reaper thinned the #PeakTV herd this year in triple-digit fashion. Between network, cable and streaming, more than a hundred shows aired their final episode in 2019, either due to cancellation or a pre-determined “final season.” (By comparison, 2018 death toll was 102.) The small-screen casualties ranged from long-running hits (Game of Thrones, Elementary) to critically adored gems (Fleabag, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) to… shows we barely knew existed, frankly (what’s Wayne again?).

The social changes of the past few generations have made the question of when (or whether) to include a significant other in a holiday celebration a particularly fraught one—for everyone involved.