Preschool children who struggle to control their emotions and behaviour have more symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- known as ADHD -- at age seven, a study suggests. Children aged between three and seven who are...
Source: CBS News - Health Canada legalized medical assistance in dying, known as MAID, in 2016. Since that time, there have been 44,958 medically assisted deaths in the country. MAID deaths now account for roughly 4% of overall deaths...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, new research has found. In the first-of-its-kind study, researchers detected a marked...
Source: United Press International - Health News Top U.S. government officials took time to honor Transgender Day of Remembrance in the United States amid a sizable political shift pending in Washington that includes the addition of the...
Source: BBC News - Top Headlines The Vatican has blocked discussions over women's rights at the U.N. climate summit following a debate over gay and transgender issues. Pope Francis' representatives have aligned with Saudi Arabia, Russia,...
Source: United Press International - Health News Although the United States has made significant headway in curbing cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, a new report finds deep divisions remain and they run along predictable...
Source: Science Daily - Top Society Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts,...
Source: United Press International - Health News Bathrooms on the House side of the U.S. Capitol and in the House Office Building can't be used based on gender identity, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday....
Source: BBC News - Top Headlines An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in November, a video went viral on...
Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid learning is facilitated by a unique...
Source: BBC News - Top Headlines World leaders are meeting at the annual U.N. climate summit, COP29, in Azerbaijan during what is set to be the hottest year on record. What progress have countries made to tackle climate change? Carbon...
Source: Science Daily - Top News The drug fampridine is currently used to improve walking ability in people with multiple sclerosis. A new study shows that it could also help individuals with reduced working memory, as seen in mental...
Source: U.S. News and World Report A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand's founding treaty between the British Crown and Māori chiefs has triggered political turmoil and a march by thousands of people the length of the country...
Source: United Press International - Health News An Indigenous Australian senator was censured by fellow lawmakers Monday for a "disrespectful and disruptive" outburst at Britain's King Charles III during a state visit in...
Source: U.S. News and World Report Pope Francis has suggested the global community should study whether Israel's military campaign in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people, in some of his most explicit criticism yet of...
A new study shows that the past 30 years of globalization have brought fundamental shifts in some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala. But families have still maintained a unique level of harmony in their...
Source: BBC News - Science and Environment "We're in the midst of the sixth great extinction," famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall has told BBC Radio 4's Inside Science. To help the natural world, her...
Source: U.S. News and World Report U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Saturday that human beings—not artificial intelligence—should make decisions over the use of nuclear weapons. "The two...
Source: Huff Post Environment Cities in Asia and the United States emit the largest amount of heat-trapping gas that feeds climate change, with Shanghai the most polluting, according to new data that combine observations and artificial...
Source: U.S. News and World Report The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that a spate of offensive text messages sent after Donald Trump's victory—apparently aimed at Black Americans—had expanded to target...
A new article examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. hey found that physical frailty can be an indicator of future social...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health A "deep learning" artificial intelligence model can identify pathology, or signs of disease, in images of human tissue much faster—and often more accurately—than can people. The...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Do doctors make more accurate diagnoses when they have access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and how do AI-assisted doctors compare with AI operating on its own? In a surprising study of 50...
Young people's mental health may depend on how they use social media, rather than how much time they spend using it. Psychology researchers tried an experiment with three groups. They asked one group to stay off social media. They taught...
Source: Google News - Health A mental health clinic will now "treat" Iranian women who resist wearing a hijab. The Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal is an effort by the Islamic Republic to quash female dissent that has swept...
Scientists detect a heightened 'threat vigilance' reaction in adolescents after a few hours of isolation, which socializing online doesn't appear to ameliorate. They say the findings might shed light on the link between loneliness and...
A new study has challenged the perception heavy social media use has a significant impact on mental health, finding little to no relationship between the two. In fact, not only does the research indicate the amount of time spent on...
By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional map of the brain to date. The fMRI analysis shows how different brain networks light up when participants viewed...
An analysis of social media posts that mention food and beverage products finds that fast food restaurants and sugar sweetened beverages are the most common, with millions of posts reaching billions of users over the course of a year....
Men and adolescent boys are increasingly at risk of resorting to the dangerous use of anabolic steroids in a bid to achieve the desired muscular build modeled on social media, warn body image experts. A new review that focused...
In common marmosets, the brain regions that process social interactions develop very slowly, extending until early adulthood, like in humans. During this time, all group members are involved in raising the infants, which contributes to...
A major international study involving 56,968 adults, aged 18 to 99, has found that levels of nature connectedness and nature exposure are associated with several socioeconomic and demographic factors. Higher scores were significantly...
Young people today are growing up in a social media-saturated world where technology plays a central role in shaping most of their experiences. And the rapid rise of social media use has consequently created parental and societal fears...
When we make decisions, we are often guided by the opinions and experiences of those around us. Yet we actually have quite different preferences, tastes and goals. A research team investigated how we learn from others despite individual...
Having happy intimate partners might not only lift our moods, but it also helps us manage stress, especially as we age, according to new research. When comparing individuals' self-reported emotional states and relationship satisfaction...
Workplace bullying poses a serious threat to employees' health and well-being. A study sheds new light on the impact of social relationships on workplace bullying. Focusing on the dynamics of social relationships, the study shows how...
Scientists shed light on the often-overlooked role of the cerebellum in both motor and social-cognitive processes. His research contributes to a growing shift in the field of neuroscience, which has traditionally focused on the cerebrum....
New research quantified the association between loneliness and dementia by analyzing data from more than 600,000 people around the world. The meta-analysis of 21 longitudinal studies showed that experiencing feelings of loneliness...
Researchers have revealed that the CA1 and CA2 regions in the brain respectively encode the locations and individuals linked with a threatening experience. The results show that, beyond simply recognizing individuals, CA2 helps record...
Researchers investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral transition from the sexually receptive estrus stage to the non-receptive phase, as part of the hormone-dependent behavioral changes during the estrous cycle in...
New research suggests a person's feelings towards a parent can be significantly changed when they are asked to evaluate them during talking therapy, even when the question isn't suggestive.
Researchers have identified how the architecture of brain circuits helps different species flexibly adapt to new mating signals across evolutionary timeframes.