Researchers Say Younger Generations May Be Aging Faster Than Their Parents Did
Separate studies, one at Washington University School of Medicine (WashU Med), St. Louis, MO, and one at Columbia University Vagelos ...
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Researchers Just Unlocked AI’s Black Box
Just last month, I wrote about how today’s AI models are essentially black boxes. We know what goes in, and we ...
Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem
How little time outdoors does it take to feel better? In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried ...
A 2025 MIT report estimated that roughly 95% of task-specific enterprise generative-AI initiatives had yet to produce measurable business returns. The researchers argued that the main obstacle was not the underlying models, but tools that failed to learn from feedback, fit existing workflows or solve clearly defined operational problems.
The useful reading of the MIT finding is not that generative AI has failed. It is that enterprise AI has ...
A MIT-OpenAI study of nearly 40 million chats found the heaviest ChatGPT users reported more loneliness, dependence, and less time with real people, though researchers warn the link is correlation, not cause
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent ...
What Yale Researchers Found About Positive Aging Beliefs—and Why It Matters After 60
Many people grow up hearing that aging automatically means decline. Slower movement, worsening health, memory problems, and reduced independence are ...
Juggling several tasks at once feels efficient, but researchers have found that each switch quietly costs time and accuracy — via hidden mental stages of shifting goals and reloading rules that compound
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open the research tab, and start reading for ...
A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled researchers was this: a third had turned to a bot, not a person, for a serious conversation
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least ...
Bipartisan plan to fund Social Security with stocks has fatal flaw, researchers say
A Boston College analysis raised doubts about whether a bipartisan plan to use stocks and other high-return assets could really ...
Federal Reserve researchers find tariffs fully pass on to consumers and inflation
The debate about who actually pays for tariffs has simmered in boardrooms and at kitchen tables across America. A little ...
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