1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (759+ words) Childhood mental health has become a worry that is shared across much of the world. In Scotland, around 16 percent of children live with an emotional or behavioral difficulty. Similar rates appear in England, the United States, Canada and Brazil. Most…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1100+ words) Governments around the world are moving to restrict or ban social media for teenagers, often citing scientific evidence that less screen time leads to better mental health. But a new review found a surprising gap in that evidence. Researchers examined…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1013+ words) Most of us know the routine. You step on a scale, someone measures your height, and a number appears on a chart. That number is your'body mass index, or BMI, and it is used as an indicator of your health....

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (716+ words) Most people remember teachers by more than lessons. One teacher made a hard subject feel possible. Another made the room tense before anyone opened a notebook. Students sense a teacher's emotional state, even if they cannot name it. The research…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1076+ words) Autism has long been recognized as a spectrum, reflecting the wide range of ways it can affect how people think, communicate, and experience the world. One autistic child may speak early, love numbers, and dislike loud rooms. Another may speak…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (838+ words) Babies stare at faces before they can do almost anything else. A parent's eyes flick toward a toy, and somehow the message lands. Look here " this is interesting. That tiny act of eye-reading is one of the first social skills…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (883+ words) Nutrition apps have been telling people what to eat for years. Most build the ideal plate from scratch " nutrient targets met and processed food minimized. It's the meal you're supposed to have rather than the one you actually make. None…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (883+ words) For years, parents have been told that persistent lying in childhood is a red flag " an early sign of bigger problems ahead. The assumption feels intuitive enough that it has filtered into how teachers, clinicians, and even courts approach dishonest…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (886+ words) Ask someone about their earliest memory, and they'll usually land somewhere around age three or four. Everything before that is blank " and science has long had an explanation ready: the infant brain wasn't developed enough to store memories of individual…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (846+ words) High in the stratosphere researchers have discovered something that shouldn't have gone unnoticed for this long." A previously unrecognised class of ultrafine particles, so small they're invisible to most monitoring instruments, turns out to be extraordinarily abundant in the lowest…...