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A measles outbreak has been linked to four deaths in Pennsylvania, two of them infants, while the health…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent his Senate confirmation hearings insisting he was not anti-vaccine.
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Psychology
Adults who plan every detail of retirement except how they’ll spend Tuesday…
The early findings described a pattern rather than a catastrophe.
Analysis
Pennsylvania records four measles-associated deaths in four weeks, the most in a single…
Pennsylvania confirmed its first two measles-associated deaths of 2026 on August 25, followed by two more on September 15.
Psychology
Adults who prefer texting over phone calls aren’t necessarily avoidant — some may…
The research offers a more complicated picture than the usual stereotypes suggest.
Analysis
The most cited evidence that TikTok harms cognition comes from TikTok’s own…
The panic about short-form video has an odd shape.
Psychology
One reason some adults keep friendships shallow on purpose has less to do with fear of…
Some early wound, some inability to be vulnerable, some story about a distant parent.
News
Raleigh will vote October 6 on a six-month data center moratorium, becoming the last…
News
Pennsylvania is on track to forgo close to $2 billion by 2031 on a sales tax break…
Those figures describe the projected cost of the exemption program as a whole, not the amount Amazon itself is expected to save.
Analysis
Georgia halts Stacey Humphreys’ execution hours before he was set to die, after a…
Eleven of the twelve jurors voted for life without parole.
Psychology
Adults who rehearse conversations before making a phone call often aren’t anxious…
This is not, by any clinical measure, social anxiety.
Psychology
People who stay in touch with old friends after moving away aren’t necessarily…
The friendships that survive a move rarely survive on feeling alone.
News
A palaeontologist browsing an amber market in Myanmar spotted a lump the seller thought…
Lida Xing, a palaeontologist at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, looked closer and saw feathers.
Psychology
Adults who keep working into their late sixties often aren’t afraid of retirement…
Teresa Amabile spent a decade at Harvard Business School interviewing 120 people about how they left work behind.
Psychology
People who return to part-time work after claiming Social Security early may not be…
Retirement is not always a clean switch from worker to nonworker.
Analysis
22 states sue to block Trump’s expanded public charge rule, but 1.4 to 4.1…
The public charge rule does not need to be enforced to change behavior.
Analysis
Columbia funded one side of the Gaza debate while arresting students on the other, IRS…
In the following fiscal year, it paid $7,200 to the Anti-Defamation League for program services.