Nowadays, trading stocks is as frictionless as it's ever been. You spend a few minutes opening a brokerage account (often for free), fund it, then do your trading via a couple of clicks of a mouse or ...

One of my coping mechanisms for handling the second Trump presidency has been to read more conservatives. Though not just any conservatives. I’ve sought out those who are thoughtful, respectful, have ...

Amy Dawel receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Prevention is key. Just as early eating habits often carry through to adulthood, we can set the stage for good mental health from birth ...

Kids have taken up an anti-robot and anti-AI slang term. But some are treading carefully around the use of a slur — even against technology. (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

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Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients. Chelation therapy is used to treat acute cases of lead poisoning and other ...

FOR MILLIONS OF CONSUMER TAX CREDITS ACROSS THE NATION. AS A RESULT OF THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT. AND WE TOLD YOU WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED THE MEASURE INTO LAW BACK IN JULY. SO COME ...

After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to come to each other's aid if one is faced with an attack. According to ...

In 1654, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal explained the logic of believing in God, expressed as a wager. The cost to a believer of wrongly placing faith is trivial, but the cost ...

"Obviously, very disappointed about the outcome of the game. I just told our kids, let’s not get this twisted, we obviously didn’t play well enough to a man and we didn’t coach well enough, starting ...

An app called Young Minds wants to give parents control over what their kids do on the internet, while also protecting their children’s privacy and teaching them good online habits. The startup was ...