The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

Feeling fear is an evolutionary survival tactic. A small number of people have a rare condition that means they're not scared of anything. How do they live a life without fear? Imagine jumping out of ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

BERLIN (AP) — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the ...

Ross Colquhoun wakes up his wife Mary E. Brunkow to talk about her winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP ...

An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over. Yet, most of the time, our species ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

50 splits communities more times — though in their argument mailed to voters, they overcounted the number of times ... Black voters reach that threshold and seven where Latino voters do. Prop. 50 ...

If someone asked you how much money you would need to make per year to live your ideal life, what do you think you’d say? Well, everyone’s different, but a woman named Rebecca took to TikTok to tell ...

Even if you’re a Strava refuser or a smartwatch shunner, the purest of purist runners invariably have an ideal finish time in their heads when they arrive at a start line. If you’re going to hit or go ...

People say they want sustainable products, but they don’t tend to buy them. Here’s how to change that. by Katherine White, David J. Hardisty and Rishad Habib On the surface, there has seemingly never ...

Few Americans have the cash they need on hand to pay for big-ticket items upfront. That's why it's not unusual for people to take out mortgages, car loans and student loans, so they can pay for these ...