Premature babies especially benefited from skin-to-skin contact, and women tended to respond more strongly than men did.A hug, a handshake, a therapeutic massage. A newborn lying on a mother’s bare chest.Physical touch can buoy well-being and lessen pain, depr... More »
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.Follow our live updates on the total solar eclipse.On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathe... More »
Vice President Kamala Harris will stop in the city on Monday to promote efforts to forgive student debt. Some local officials are calling for greater outreach in more rural areas.President Biden loves Philadelphia. And he loves campaigning there, too.No part o... More »
Dragon's Dogma 2 has a hot new trend, and it involves tackling a Pawn off a cliff to avoid fall damage.'Pawn Surfing,' as the new trend has been coined, somewhat originated from the wild Reddit post just below. In a very important public service announcement, ... More »
Guess who's back, back again? The Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run is back! Tell a friend!This year, the Community Endurance Run is going to kick off on this Friday, April 12th and run through Sunday, April 14th.Several awesome members of the Giant Bomb comm... More »
A mass of starlings swoop and twirl, tracing what looks like dotted lines across a golden evening sky. Elephants charge through the streets of a small town at night, seeking food as humans retreat indoors. A SpaceX rocket, on a secretive mission, transits in f... More »
A nonprofit group called R.I.P. Medical Debt has relieved Americans of $11 billion in hospital bills. But that did not improve their mental health or their credit scores, a study found.Over the past decade, R.I.P. Medical Debt has grown from a tiny nonprofit g... More »
Sea otters float amid a forest of kelp off California’s Central Coast. Mario Tama / Getty ImagesSea otters are not just cute and lovable—they also help a crucial habitat flourish.These critters have a well-known influence... More »
On 8 April, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Mexico, the US and Canada. This kind of eclipse only occurs when the sun and moon line up perfectly in the sky so the moon covers the entire disc of the sun, casting a shadow on Earth. The path that this shad... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGMESQUITE, Texas (AP) — Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the U.S. to Canada eagerly awaited Monday’s celestial sensation — a total eclipse of the sun — even as forecasters called for clouds.The best we... More »
Since the beginning of his political career, Donald J. Trump has misled, mischaracterized, dissembled, exaggerated and, at times, flatly lied. His flawed statements about the border, the economy, the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election have formed the b... More »
“We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.“This isn’t fun.”That’s what the choreographer Jamar Roberts told members of the Martha Graham Dance Company... More »