DEAR JOAN: This year’s fall reset of our clocks back an hour appears to have permanently changed the morning rising time for our 14-year-old small cockapoo, Coco. In past years, within a few weeks of ...

There’s a new type of shopper taking over at Walmart, and it could cause a big change that hurts budget-conscious consumers. Walmart is now targeting a different demographic amid declining ...

Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

A woman who works as a dog groomer decided to give her own pup a touch-up—and then realized she has the "free will" to give her a unique cut. Emily Tunstall owns dog-grooming service The Canine Cabin ...

In this special reported feature, writer Amaya Graham speaks with former members of the boy band Mindless Behavior as their debut single “My Girl” celebrates its 15 year anniversary, and, with them, ...

A video showing a cockapoo’s first day at doggy day care has gone viral on TikTok—and this time it isn’t for the usual chaos of excitable pups. Instead, it captures the opposite: a dog looking ...

People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. “Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Sadly, most people will come across ...

We’re more than halfway through 2025, and SEO has already changed names many times to take into account the new mission of optimizing for the rise of large language models (LLMs): We’ve seen GEO ...

Hanging from lamps, catapulting off countertops, tackling the dog, biting your legs unexpectedly—there are many wacky behaviors associated with orange cats, often captured on TikTok, whose owners ...

“Birds of a feather flock together,” the popular adage goes. It suggests people in a relationship who are similar to each other personality-wise are likely to be happier and stick together, while ...