Source: Google News New York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with demands to end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration's threats to terminate...
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories News A unique program called EcoCooks has been providing Canadian children with hands-on lessons about food—cooked or grown by students themselves—and mixing in...
Source: APA PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire LGBTQ research in the United States is collapsing. In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have been...
Source: PBS Science The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in in Spanish and other languages besides English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health There are over six million Americans with heart failure who are at greater risk of losing their cognitive abilities earlier in life, suggests a new study published in the journal Circulation: Heart...
Source: United Press International - Health News A new Title IX Special Investigations team will focus on enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender women from competing on female sports teams and using...
The fear of rejection -- familiar to many children and adults -- can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new research.
Source: Google News - Health A new blood test could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's. In addition to detecting the disease, the test helps determine the stage of its progression. This work, published in the...
Source: United Press International - Health News The Trump administration suspended dozens of research grants to Princeton University on Tuesday, making it the latest Ivy League school to lose federal funding over allegations of...
Source: United Press International - Health News The U.S. Department of Education announced the Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is investigating alleged anti-Semitism on Harvard's campus. The Department...
Source: Google News New research shows that reduced time in slow wave and REM sleep is related to smaller brain volumes in regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease. Using sleep studies and brain imaging data from 270 participants, the...
AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and accessible way to fill the gaps in the overstretched U.S. mental health care system, but ethics experts warn that we need to be thoughtful about how we use them, especially with children.
Source: BBC News - Top Headlines Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, recently got the all-clear for a massive increase in investment after parliament voted to exempt defense spending from strict rules on debt. The country's top general...
Source: Science From programs designed to detect irregular heartbeats in electrocardiograms to software that tracks eye movements to diagnose autism, artificial intelligence is helping physicians fine-tune the care they provide patients....
Source: United Press International - Health News A federal judge has blocked the Texas A&M University System from enforcing a drag show ban, handing a victory to an LGBTQ+ student group. The lawsuit was filed by the Texas A&M...
Source: United Press International - Health News Japan's Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday that the country's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The court's ruling is the fifth decision to call Japan's same-sex marriage ban a...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Researchers conducted the first clinical trial of an AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that, on average, people with diagnosed mental disorders experienced clinically significant improvements in...
Source: BBC News - Americas Columbia University's interim president has resigned her role just one week after the Ivy League university agreed to change several policies to satisfy demands from the Trump administration. Katrina Armstrong...
Source: Google News U.S. state and county public health departments and nonprofit groups are reeling after the Trump administration abruptly announced the cancellation and revocation of roughly $11.4 billion in funding for grants linked...
Source: Google News - Health The arrest of a Tufts University student by hooded Homeland Security agents in plain clothes—caught on video—is raising new questions about the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown on...
Source: United Press International - Health News Utah became the first state in the U.S. to ban flying the LGBTQ Pride flag in all public school and government buildings, after Republican Governor Spencer Cox let the bill pass into law...
People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a large language model (LLM) to...
Researchers explored how the characteristics of communication networks in groups (i.e., density and centralization) affected the development of shared social identity and, as a result, group performance. The study's findings can help...
Source: Association for Psychological Science James Pennebaker has always been curious about people. He attended Eckerd College as an undergraduate with the intention of eventually going to law school, but psychology diverted his...
The end of a romantic relationship usually does not come out of the blue but is indicated one or two years before the breakup. As the results of a psychological study have demonstrated, the terminal stage of a relationship consists of...
For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher is thinking outside the box, aiming to...
Research has tracked depressive symptoms in 7100 young people from Tokyo and London and shown girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both cities. The study found that this gap is around twice as large in London and the...
Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling, according to a new study.
The oxytocin system -- which helps release breast milk and strengthens the bond between mother and baby -- may be affected during breastfeeding in mothers experiencing postnatal depression.
Many people dream of retiring to a warmer, less expensive country. But retirees who move abroad may be at greater risk of loneliness than those who stay in their home country, according to new research.
Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study.
Parenting skills can make a big difference in fostering a newborn's language acquisition and cognition, but there may be a limit to how far parenting can go to make up the challenges to developing this skill in those born in highly...
A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that encode...
Urban highways promise to get people to their destinations faster -- and bring them together. But at the same time, they reduce social connections between people within the city, especially at distances of less than 5 km, according to a...
In our polarized society, a new study offers hope for the future: Even young children can learn to discuss and argue about meaningful problems in a respectful and productive way. Researchers found success in a social studies curriculum...
Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In Ghana, most babies grow up...
Anthropologists, social scientists and veterans are analyze the relationship between the hormones cortisol and testosterone and PTSD in a non-industrialized society.
A study shows that long-term unemployed individuals perceive their capabilities as weaker than the general Finnish population. Capabilities refer to the opportunities to achieve important things in life, such as health and well-being....
Making enemies isn't random. Traits like emotional instability, aggression, and disruptive behavior early in life can lead to antagonistic relationships. Research on students aged 9-14 found that negative behaviors, such as lack of...
Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and have developed a theoretical...
Narcissists feel ostracized more frequently than their less self-absorbed peers, according to researchers. This may stem not only from being shunned due to their personalities but from a tendency to misinterpret ambiguous social signals...
Research has found that people who strive for dominance, whether in personal or professional life, are more confident in their decision-making but are no more accurate in their choices than those of a lower social status.
Surveys of college students conducted in 2012 and in 2022 found many similarities in their expectations about romantic relationships; however, they are now taking diverse paths through those relationships.