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Are horns growing on young peopleās skulls? Phone use is to blame, research suggests
Mobile technology has transformed the way we live - how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this.
Students decry George Mason’s decision to hire Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will beat the Washington heat this summer and head for Runnymede, England, a bucolic borough 20 miles from London along the River Thames.
Trump administration asks court to totally repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act
In a significant shift, the Justice Department now says it backs a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the signature Obama-era health law.
Who was acing tests for rich kids in the admissions scam? A pro tennis player and “really smart guy,” feds say.
The multimillion-dollar college admissions scam was orchestrated by a college preparatory consultant, William āRickā Singer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Boston, but the brains behind the operation...
Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism, says a new, decade-long study of half a million people
The notion that vaccines might cause autism was refuted nine years ago, when a British medical panel concluded in 2010 that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor with undisclosed financial interests in...
Hello, hive mind: Bees can do basic arithmetic, a new study finds
The oval-shaped brain of a honeybee is roughly the size of a single sesame seed. It contains fewer than 1 million neurons, while the human brain contains 100 billion.
A “mass invasion” of polar bears is terrorizing an island town. Climate change is to blame.
Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.
Americans take the pain of girls less seriously than that of boys, a new study finds
A child's finger is pricked at a doctor's office, and the child cries out. "Ow! Ah! Oh!"
Gillette commercial takes on “toxic masculinity” in #MeToo-era rebrand
For three decades, Gillette promised its customers "The Best a Man Can Get."
Critics demand networks fact-check Trump’s live immigration speech
President Donald Trump, who cemented a national following on reality TV, is used to addressing the American people on-screen and in prime time. So his speech Tuesday evening from the...