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Eldest-daughter syndrome is backed by science. It's great news for parents and younger siblings.

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

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

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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.