Five decades ago, Duke psychologists Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi began working with a long-term study of 1,000 people in New Zealand to get a better perspective on how childhood factors may have led to adolescent behaviors, such as risk-taking.

Shivin Devgon just couldn’t shake that sluggish feeling. Toward the end of 2021, the San Diego software engineer thought his health was on the right track. He exercised regularly and was able to perform well at work. Still, he lacked energy, and his mood always felt off.

Species unknown to science could be hiding in this gaping hole.

Tony Fadell, aka the “father of the iPod” and the founder behind Nest, which he then sold to Google, is on a book tour for his latest: Build: An Unthordox Guide to Making Things Worth Building. It sounds like a good read for tech nerds or anyone with even an inkling of curiosity into how companies are built and run. I bought a copy and chewed through the first few chapters over the weekend.

How did a Usenet troll and encryption genius become a criminal mastermind? For a man who built an empire in pixels, Paul Le Roux seemed like a digital phantom. After his name surfaced in the press in late 2014, I spent the better part of a year trying to understand him through the same means by which he’d directed his massive pharmacy business: the Internet. Late at night, I would open my laptop and plunge into an online wormhole, searching for clues about who Le Roux had been and what he became.

Boring chatter. Silly vaudeville acts. Bygone operas. These are just a few of the kinds of sounds that could be buried in a trove of wax cylinder recordings that no one has listened to in 100 years or more. Now, after a century of silence, the rarely-heard recordings will finally become audible—and available to the public. As NPR‘s Jennifer Vanasco reports, the library has acquired a new machine to digitize the priceless sounds.

More than half of Americans (55%) surveyed in a new study from NordVPN say that they would choose to delete themselves from the internet if they could. To compile its study, the VPN maker commissioned the market research firm Propeller Insights to survey 1,002 US consumers aged 18 and over in December of last year.

Facebook’s parent, Meta, revealed this week that a core business goal in developing a virtual-reality “metaverse” is to make money from digital transactions. Now the company is ac…

IN JANUARY 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd., began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.” In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev.

Gerald Cotten is a wanted man. Cotten was the head of the infamous QuadricaCX, a large cryptocurrency exchange based in Canada that turned out to be a massive Ponzi scheme. The customers he ripped off continue to hunt him down, even though he is officially “dead.” Some of them lost their life savings to the scam and are desperately looking to recover the stolen funds.

Comparing something to a grain of sand is usually supposed to mean that it’s small or insignificant, but Dr. Gary Greenberg’s microscopic photography aims to turn this stereotype on its head. His photographs of miniscule grains of sands magnified up to 300 times reveal that each grain of sand can be beautiful and unique.

I have a friend who speaks only in trite, pithy statements — “What goes around comes around.” “You should really think outside the box.” “Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” No? “Then it feels like a perfect storm.” God, they’re “such a cliché.”

As Netflix gears up to release the NC-17 biopic Blonde starring Ana De Armas as Marilyn Monroe, the streamer is diving into the mogul’s story in another project. Later this month, the streamer is set to unveil The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, a documentary that’ll piece together the star’s final days before her death.

Added sweeteners pose dangers to health that justify controlling them like alcohol, argue Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt and Claire D. Brindis.

An experimental pain drug that may offer an alternative to opioids has shown promise in two small clinical trials for acute pain, its developer announced today.

Climate change solutions for consumers typically are held to be home solar power systems, energy storage systems, electric vehicles or hybrid gas-electric vehicles, energy-efficient appliances, better home insulation, net-zero construction, and so forth. Broadly speaking, food waste is not at the top of such lists.