READING, Pa. – At Monday's Committee of the Whole meeting of Reading City Council, the first steps were discussed to form a government study commission to explore whether the city should change its ...

Have you ever dreamed of being a Pokemon researcher? If so, you'll need to do some studying to become a bonafide expert in the field of pocket monsters, and that's where this informative book comes ...

In a blow to the medical cannabis establishment, a team of psychiatrists performed a detailed analysis on 15 years of cannabis research — and found not only that medical marijuana doesn’t seem to help ...

We’re talking tarot, folks. Humans have been dancing with divination since time immemorial, but the oldest surviving set of tarot cards, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, dates to 16th-century Italy.

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There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...

Amongst key findings of the study is faster growth in non-work-related ChatGPT usage than in work-related usage. The demographic breakdown of ChatGPT users was also found to have shifted, with the ...

It can be hard to truly grasp the impact of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry’s eight-hundred-page epic, on Texas culture. The iconic novel, which was first published forty years ago, not only demystified ...

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study finds. Researchers from University College London and ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...