Being book smart is not the same as being street smart. Just because someone has a pile of degrees doesn’t mean that they have excellent problem solving or social skills. At the same time, a person ...

Think about someone you’d call a friend. What’s it like when you’re with them? Do you feel connected? Like the two of you are in sync? In today’s story, we’ll meet two friends who have always been in ...

In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

TIOBE Index for December 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent December’s TIOBE Index lands with a quieter top tier but a livelier shuffle just beneath it. The main ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

It was dark and silent, with a chill in the air, as an army of police vehicles blue-lighted their way through the city, headed for one destination. If you told me at 6.20am that Merseyside Police were ...

My passions for nature and photography developed at an early age. Growing up in Dallas, I spent countless hours biking, ...

Credit card giant Visa (V) is launching USDC settlement in the United States, letting issuer and acquirer partners settle obligations to the card network in Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin. The move ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a ...

Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103. Each 15 to ...