Generative AI is changing how we work. Tools like ChatGPT and Copilot help people write everything from emails to blog posts to plans for internal analyses 40% faster than they used to, according to a ...

Grandparents who help care for their grandchildren tend to show stronger memory and language skills than those who don’t. The cognitive benefits appear to come from being involved as a caregiver, not ...

Spending time alone gets a bad rap. It too often gets conflated with loneliness, which triggers fears of an epidemic of loneliness, especially among men. Loneliness is worth fretting about, but time ...

Teenagers spend more than an hour on their smartphones during a typical school day, mostly on social media apps, concludes a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

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AMERICANS ARE having fewer children than ever before. In 2024 the fertility rate was just 1.6 babies per woman, down from 1.9 a decade ago. This is partly because people are becoming parents later in ...

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The holiday season evokes more positive feelings than negative ones, with many Americans saying they feel happy and grateful. And while decorations and exchanging gifts may be nice, by far, most ...

A friend of mine had just traveled across the country to see his family when he texted me, deeply concerned. The chaos of holiday travel is always a drag, but usually, it was offset by getting a break ...

Solitude isn’t about cutting people off; it’s about reconnecting with the person you often ignore, yourself. Spending time alone with yourself is very important for self-esteem. It gives you genuine ...

As Inc. colleague Jessica Stillman writes, “Work, sleep, family, or fitness: Pick three.” Balance is difficult to achieve. Compromises are inevitable. The tradeoff that tends to make people feel the ...

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