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Terms that are direct analogs to sexual intercourse are widely used to describe connector ends, but the language is evolving away from those problematic words.
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue to divide America amid social and economic crises.
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.
Feeling prepared helped children with their worries.
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
Washington has promised to unleash “economic D-Day” on Tehran and its allies. But Iran has lived through US sanctions for nearly 50 years.
Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter.
Around 20% of adults procrastinate regularly. Yet a lot of what we hear about this common behaviour is wrong.
There is not only one way to learn to read, as people who are deaf, blind or dyslexic demonstrate.