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The surge in enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has led to concerns that the AI boom is a looming bubble that will eventually burst. The euphoria is drawing comparisons to the dotcom bubble of the ...

Happiness is declining among America's young adults, and no one seems to agree on why. In this year's World Happiness Report, which ranks 143 countries across measures of life satisfaction, the U.S.

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For millennia, humans have seen inexplicable things in the sky. Some have been beautiful, some have been terrifying, and some — like auroras and solar eclipses before they were understood ...

Health concerns have been mounting for decades. Here’s what the research suggests. By Alice Callahan and Dani Blum When artificial sweeteners entered the U.S. market in the 1950s, food manufacturers ...

These chemicals are found in everything from bacon and sausage to beets and celery — but how you consume them matters. Here‘s what the research says. Lisa Valente is a registered dietitian, nutrition ...

Their numbers have dwindled, but the remaining members are imagining what comes next. Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker village in Maine.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times ...

What is really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI? Our reporters and editors have spent years thinking about this question, charting AI’s progress and mapping out what’s next. Now, ...

It was December 2025, and Katie Tobin’s kids were fighting again. This time it was because her six-year-old, Tori, wasn’t sharing toys with her little sister, Sunny. Sunny retaliated as ...