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Habit helps take the mental load off figuring out how to get somewhere. But relying on the familiar can make it harder to adapt to changes to your route and to find better ones.

Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.

If humans had the same arm proportions as a T. rex, a 6-foot-tall person would have arms about 11 inches long.

The EPA's new interpretations are strategically designed to appeal to the current US Supreme Court's view of agency authority.

Hemp-derived THC products are federally legal, for now. A chemist describes the different THC forms these products can contain and the legal restrictions placed on them.

Pennsylvania's patchwork of ICE detention centers makes it difficult to track loved ones.

The Supreme Court created a test 40 years ago to root out racial bias in jury selection. Here, a death penalty scholar explains why it's not working.

Young people don't all contribute in the same way, and understanding the broader picture is the starting point for adults who want to support them.

Thoreau's work as a pioneering physical scientist is almost invisible in popular culture, according to a geologist and Thoreau historian.

New research shows that for every 10 boys identified with autism, only about two girls in a comparable situation were identified.