The monstrously successful HBO series Game of Thrones famously tossed out a lot of good-and-evil fantasy tropes to tell a ...

A new book shows how parents can help kids become emotionally mature so they can live happier, more successful lives.

Klara and the Sun, the film adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel coming out this week, explores what it means to love, care ...

My 10-year-old son came to me recently with a question about black holes. Not in the way children usually do, restless and easily redirected, but with the focused intensity of someone who had already ...

Hunter‑gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality—but the reality is more complicated.

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Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers, and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial ...

Chimps steal less from friends and expect them to do the same, providing a look into how chimpanzee emotions may be similar to our own. What does it actually take to put people over politics?

As an undergrad student decades ago, I attended a dorm presentation describing the importance of giving and receiving sexual consent. The workshop leaders explained that if your partner said “no” or ...

Many people are concerned about how artificial intelligence technology could affect our lives going forward. Will it create new jobs or take away people’s livelihoods? Enhance children’s learning or ...

Though Djurdja Padejski was raised in communist Yugoslavia, her life there felt stable and uneventful for a long time. In the 1980s, under Yugoslavia’s “soft” one-party government, Padejski and her ...

In a genre built around sweetness and ease, one “cozy” video game did something far greater: It put me back together after I lost Mary. Mary was not only my then-boyfriend’s mother, but she also ...