A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Crime is down. Migrant workers and customers are staying home. As part of our video series on Trump’s second term, The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman takes us inside the aftermath. Photo ...

In mid-December 2025, an image (archived) circulated online purportedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump using a walker as a mobility aid. Keith Edwards, a Democratic political strategist, posted ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...

We know we do it. But have you ever studied a person’s gestures as they spoke to you? Or noticed how you move your hands subconsciously when speaking? Gesturing comes naturally to many of us and is ...

AI tools have become a hit with lawyers. But judges have shown they have little patience for when their experiments with the tech go wrong. When combing over a document submitted by two defense ...

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Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...

Dr. McBain studies policies and technologies that serve vulnerable populations. On any given night, countless teenagers confide in artificial intelligence chatbots — sharing their loneliness, anxiety ...