Noninvasive electrical zaps, tuned specifically to individual brain-activity patterns, appear to reduce checking, hoarding and other compulsions for up to three months

Concerned they might strike the wrong tone, both brands have opted to sit out.

DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

The study challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior.

How one man went from attending President Barack Obama’s inauguration to dying in the mob protesting Donald Trump’s election loss during the Capitol insurrection.

Theatrical brutality makes people believe they have power, even if they don’t.

A "game-changing" new blood test from medical device company Abbott could allow doctors to diagnose traumatic brain injuries in under 15 minutes.

Soil bacteria can live on air – and also assist to control climate change. Soil plays a significant role in regulating climate change than earlier thought according to a new study co-authored by an academic from Queen Mary University of London.

This is the year that broke the truth. This is the year when millions of Americans — and not just your political opponents — seemed impervious to evidence, willing to believe the most outlandish things if it suited their biases, and eager to develop fervid animosities based on crude stereotypes. Worse, this was the year that called into question the very processes by which our society supposedly makes progress.

Investigators who audited the signatures on more than 15,000 absentee ballot envelopes in one Georgia county say they found “no fraudulent absentee ballots.”

New York City has an estimated 114,000 homeless children, many of whom have had to adapt to an age of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in shelters with no internet access. That could change soon thanks to a federal ruling on Wednesday advancing a putative class action lawsuit that would force the city to connect these students online.

One surefire sign of how well a game sold is online retailer Amazon's Best Sellers of the year. This year Nintendo dominated the top 10.

International convention to stop richer countries exporting contaminated material for recycling could mean a cleaner ocean in five years

The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out.

Fair use wins again

The French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion in the 1960s and 70s with his futuristic looks and pioneering approach to merchandise, has died at the age of 98. His death was announced by France’s Fine Arts Academy on Twitter. Cardin’s family told Agence France-Presse he died in hospital in Neuilly, near Paris.

Native oysters have unexpectedly returned to the shores of Belfast Lough after more than 100 years, researchers have discovered – though scientists are still unsure how they got there. Ostrea edulis, the European flat oyster, is listed as threatened and/or declining by the Ospar conservation scheme and is the focus of numerous biodiversity projects around Europe. But now it has impressed scientists by establishing itself in Belfast Lough without the aid of a reintroduction programme.

Medical schools applications are surging, as the coronavirus outbreak prompts young people to reconsider health care professions. Applications are up 18% nationwide to medical school nationwide, compared to the same period last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

There are many people who strongly believe that aliens are real and they are living somewhere far from the blue planet, Earth. But a new scientific study suggested that such civilizations destroyed themselves through progress.

CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive. That strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability, as its tactics to dominate nearly every market—furniture, diapers, tripods, shoes—make it a target for antitrust enforcers and politicians.

Trump issued full pardons to 26 individuals and commuted the sentences of three others.

A murder in the Arctic could provide legal precedent for extraplanetary laws

Deciphering the most beloved, most reviled children’s-book author in history.