This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ use and views of chatbots for health. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 76.1 years. But this range varies widely—a child raised in wealthy San Mateo County, California, can expect to live nearly 85 years. A child raised in Fort ...

Like many autistic people, Madi Young, a consultant in Seattle, has learned to perform the social behaviors and body language that neurotypical people expect. But masking, as it’s called, is hard work ...

The city of Phoenix set heat records in summer 2023, with high temperatures that topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) for 31 consecutive days and at least 54 days in total. In such ...

Artificial intelligence is helping people with the hardest parts of dating. New apps can create dating profiles to help someone find the perfect match. Its promoters say artificial intelligence can do ...

I was once stranded with my 86-year-old mother in the Atlantic Ocean. We were on a snorkeling excursion off the coast of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. ― Myrna Peterson predicts self-driving vehicles will be a ticket out of isolation and loneliness for people like her, who live outside big cities and have disabilities that ...

As of November 1, almost 42 million people in the United States—one in eight Americans—will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. It is the first time that America’s ...