After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as ...

The Chicago Bulls have been in NBA limbo for the last few years, last making the NBA Playoffs in 2022. They've had stars on their team, most notably DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine, as the recent ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

The rapper is expecting his third baby with his partner, Rihanna Savion Washington/FilmMagic A$AP Rocky is revealing if he is planning on parenting his third baby any ...

Brainy dogs can work out how similar toys work - even when they don’t look alike, reveals new research. Clever canines can categorize objects by function - just like humans, say scientists. They ...

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has leaned heavily on the use of executive orders, issuing more than 200 directives on topics ranging from immigration to tariffs and climate change.

A little tweet drew my attention to the sidewalk — that's where I spotted him. On the ground in Wedgewood Houston, a tiny bird fought an army of enclosing fire ants, wildly kicking and flailing. I ...

Every parent delights in a baby’s babbling, those streams of sounds that fill the air. To the untrained ear, it may seem like sweet but meaningless noise. In reality, these exchanges shape the ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter - they help to build a baby's emerging language skills. But it turns out this ...

Hyphenaters used to be fearless. Bad to the bone. Unflinching in the face of multi-word adjectives that required two or even three hyphens. An editor would see the terms “anti” and “social” and “media ...