Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we tell our children to deceive. -with apologies to Sir Walter Scott. We're having a little problem with lying at my house: My daughter, Sophie, won't do it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Adults know well that actions have consequences, but kids might need guidance ...

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Young adults who experience negative consequences from using both alcohol and cannabis simultaneously are likely to have fewer drinks the next time they drink, but are more likely to use cannabis and ...

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. — Norman Cousins A ...

On Sunday afternoon, a 28-year-old man walked into a Washington, D.C. ping-pong bar and pizzeria. He was carrying an AR-15 assault rifle – hardly standard-issue hardware for a round of table tennis.

Ramakrishnan explains why we may not want to lengthen our lives much longer. Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sat down with ABC News Live to discuss the science and ethics of ...

The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers. The Terminator movie trilogy, for example, ...

(A) Common DNA damaging agents (top), examples of DNA lesions induced by these agents (middle), and the most relevant DNA repair mechanism responsible for the removal of the lesions (bottom). (B) ...