After working from home all day, your takeout order arrives and you start binge-watching your favorite show alone. Sounds ideal, right? Except doing this routinely could shorten your life. And that’s ...

You get older every day. But how old are your cells and organs, really? Understanding that could help us live longer, healthier lives, many longevity experts believe. Dr. Douglas Vaughan is among them ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

A.I. is fueling a “poverty of imagination.” Here’s how we can fix it. By Meher AhmadJessica Grose and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha Artificial intelligence is already showing up ...

With so much to do heading into the busy holiday season, is anyone getting enough sleep? Most sleep experts advise that adults get seven to nine hours of sleep per night for good health and emotional ...

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza. By Marianne Hirsch and M. Gessen Produced by Jillian Weinberger In the wake of the Oct. 7 ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical way of thinking into the world of physics. At the time, physicists ...