COVID-19 infections are rising across the United States, amid surges in other winter illnesses. The uptick in COVID comes as the country faces a severe flu season and outbreaks of norovirus, which are ...

2025 brought us political, cultural and economic chaos, but it also gave us plenty of tangible objects to obsess over, buy and meme. There were the silly, monster-like dolls that sparked a craze among ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Starting in 2026, the 401(k) contribution limit increases to $24,500 for 2026, up from $23,500 in 2025. There's also an increase for 401(k) catch-up contributions, which apply to workers age 50 and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. On Tuesday, Trump called Somali immigrants "garbage" and said he wanted ...

It’s become a long-running joke that the long waits between seasons of “Stranger Things” caused the young cast to look much older than their character counterparts – but just how much of a gap is ...

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In some parts of the world, record numbers of people are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the United States, for example, government researchers last year ...

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation from Congress in January will raise the possibility that Republicans could lose their razor-thin majority next year. Newsweek reached out to the ...

ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne Andrew King receives funding from the Australian Research ...