[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young adulthood, according to a large study published in JAMA Health Forum. The ...

When new technology lands in children’s hands, they don’t read the manual. And they don’t tell their parents. They push every button, test every limit and try to break it. It’s how kids learn. And ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford Medicine, Stanford, California, wasn’t just asking that question. He ...

People who interact with chatbots for emotional support or other personal reasons are likelier to report symptoms of depression or anxiety, a new study finds. The researchers from Mass General Brigham ...

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 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

Before she became a globally recognized presenter as the face of “Love Island” in the U.K., Maya Jama dreamed of becoming an actor. “I was that kid who would be like, ‘Let’s have a performance in the ...