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New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

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Between 2018 to 2021, the General Social Survey found that the spread between the percentage of Democrats and Republicans who ...

Videos of dogs pressing buttons on a soundboard to "speak" to their owners have been going viral for quite some time now, but ...

An excerpt from “The Road to Wisdom,” by Francis S. Collins, on discovering the hand of God in the science of his creation.

Constitution Day, celebrated on Sept. 17, is not widely recognized, despite the importance of the document in shaping our ...

Future physicians are spending more time on divisive political topics and less time on the medical science on which individual and public health depend.

The more centrally connected someone is within their social media network, the more likely that new words they use will become adopted into mainstream language, according to a new study.