Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

OLD MAID. SPINSTER. CHILDLESS CAT LADY. For literally centuries now, everyone from gossipmongers to vice presidential candidates has slung dismissive sobriquets to describe the single woman experience ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

Charlie Calkins grew up in a big extended family. We’re talking about nearly 30 cousins—some of whom had their own kids. When he was in high school, he spent a lot of time with those young children: a ...

Being single has its perks in retirement. Sure, you won’t get a portion of your spouse’s Social Security benefits, and you won’t have additional retirement savings to draw from, but there are several ...

The paper is released for public view weeks after Google announced its AI model, DolphinGemma, which is set to revolutionize dolphin communication Getty Research reveals that dolphins can mimic human ...

From going "boy sober" to "decentering men," discourse about young women rejecting the traditional path of marriage and motherhood has swept social media. As birth and marriage rates decline, more and ...

While their salaries may still lag behind their male counterparts, single women are far outpacing single men when it comes to homeownership. A new report from LendingTree found that single women were ...

Ancient Greek is among the oldest languages in the world, but how did the pronunciation in Greek change throughout the ages? Credit: Maurice Flesier / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Greek is one of ...

Say goodbye to sullen spinster stereotypes: single women are having all the fun, according to new research – or at least, more than single men. Researchers looked at data from 10 studies carried out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Singlehood is treating women far more kindly than men. Here’s why, according to ...