Research finds that friendship is less of an exchange of giving and receiving, and more of a support system for unpredictable ...

Researchers at UCL Institute of Education, King's College London, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and UCLA report that perceived social threats in early adolescence are associated with ...

Our enjoyment of literature and fiction is rooted in theory of mind: the cognitive ability to attribute mental states ...

One corner of TikTok is claiming that the end is near, and it all started with a podcast posted by a South African preacher back in June. HMRC uses new powers to raid taxpayers’ bank accounts directly ...

Symptoms are supposed to include floating away like a balloon. Materialising out of dust to suddenly return from the dead. Or simply disappearing in a puff of logic. Other signs include driverless ...

On Sept. 27, President Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated video of himself promoting a cure-all "medbed" – a medical conspiracy theory. The video, which has since been deleted from his ...

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Y2K, 2012, the doomsday clock, and now, the Rapture. Theories about the end of the world have permeated for decades. But this week, internet pundits seemed to believe the Rapture, an event that some ...