Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness. Yet there is clear evidence that adults benefit from playfulness ...

Melody Smith has no conflicts to declare. Scott Duncan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...

A practical guide for expanding your circle, with advice from sociable people. By Laura Regensdorf Laura Regensdorf lives in Brooklyn with her hound mix, Pina, who has turned out to be a great ...

Amblyopia, or lazy eye, arises when one eye dominates early in life, leaving the other weaker. 2025 lookback: Trump yanks federal funding from NPR in move conservative advocates said was long overdue ...

These findings have been verified in adult animals of different species. A new mouse study from neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute shows that briefly and reversibly anesthetizing the retina of ...

Kids who are stars in sports and music don’t usually grow up to be stars as adults, a new study found. An examination of thousands of adults across fields including sports, music, academia and chess ...

OpenAI has been hinting for a while that ChatGPT would eventually loosen its strict content rules for adult users. Now, the company has finally put a timeline on it. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s ...

OpenAI wants to get its age-prediction model right before launching the feature. OpenAI wants to get its age-prediction model right before launching the feature. We’ve seen NSFW offerings from Grok ...

OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing attempt to keep up with its competitors. And while GPT-5.2 reportedly performs well in ...

More U.S. adults ages 45 and older are feeling lonely, according to an AARP study. The survey, published Wednesday, found that 40 percent of respondents said they felt lonely. In 2010 and 2018, 35 ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...