A child psychologist explains how to empower kids to make safer choices

Unintentional injuries kill more than 7,000 children ages 1-19 in the U.S. each year – close to 20 deaths per day. Injuries are the leading cause of child death, and…

Sofia Etzold | The slow fade of forest vitality — What decades of monitoring reveal  – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, author Sofia Etzold – a researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape – discusses the research article Decreasing water availability reduces…

GABA Immune Pathway Drives Female Brain Cancer Growth

Summary: Glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of brain cancer, exhibits striking differences between men and women in its incidence, treatment responses, and survival rates. A groundbreaking study has…

Heart Rates Align in Real-World Social Interactions

Summary: When individuals share a physical space and a mutual bond, their bodies begin to operate on the same wavelength. A new naturalistic study has demonstrated that when people are…

Comfort Food Shuts Down Chronic Stress

Summary: When faced with prolonged psychological or environmental pressure, humans and animals naturally seek out comfort behaviors to soothe their emotional distress. Among the most universal and immediate strategies is…

Searching for alien life: New model could help scientists home in on habitable exoplanets

A new planetary habitability model could make the search for aliens more efficient by quickly identifying rocky worlds unlikely to sustain the atmospheres needed for life as we know it.…

Melatonin can be a safe and effective sleep aid for all ages – but product inconsistencies and improper dosing lead to real harms

Melatonin – a go-to sleep aid for kids and adults alike in many households in America – continues to create media buzz, with conflicting messages that leave people uncertain about…

Strong Force Interactions Are Complex. This New Trick Makes Them Easier to Understand

BYLINE: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Newswise — Humans intuitively understand gravity. The closer we get to massive body, the more we feel the gravitational pull. The further away we…

Roman shrine dedicated to Minerva discovered in ancient quarry

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman rock-cut sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Minerva in an ancient quarry near Campos del Paraíso, offering new insights into religious life and industrial activity…

Network Mapping Uncovers 641 Hidden Schizophrenia Risk Genes

Summary: Researchers have revolutionized psychiatric genomics by identifying 641 previously unrecognized genes associated with schizophrenia. The study analyzed genetic datasets from over 102,000 individuals alongside postmortem brain tissue samples spanning…