1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (942+ words) Education is supposed to make people greener. In 165 countries, the groups with the most schooling ate the food associated with the highest emissions. Oliver Taherzadeh and Hongyi Cai at Leiden University reported this finding in the journal Nature Food. The…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1005+ words) Are children born with intuitive kindness? And what happens to this as they age? These were the questions that a research team set out to answer recently. They used a series of games and analyzed the decisions made by children…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1156+ words) Every August, millions of US parents dig out an immunization card, book a clinic visit and hand a form to the school office. School vaccine requirements are quiet by design. That quiet is now being tested. More than 200 vaccine-related bills…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (931+ words) Most new parents learn the same thing in the first week at home: the baby cannot hold up its own head. New fossil evidence suggests Homo erectus babies arrived just as helpless. Compared with other great apes, our children arrive…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (899+ words) Heavy social media use is often blamed for rising anxiety among young people. A recent study confirmed that the heaviest users were far more likely to report anxiety and suicidal thoughts, but it stopped short of proving cause and effect....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1177+ words) A new study has tracked people born very preterm from birth to the age of 34 and found that most of them arrive in their mid-thirties doing well. About one in five did not. Those adults ended up with low income,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (854+ words) Teenagers who lose control of their social media use tend to show more symptoms of ADHD the following year, a new study has found. The link held for problematic social media use, the compulsive, hard-to-stop kind, and it was clearest…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (847+ words) College students who spend several hours online each day may face a higher risk of suicidal thoughts, especially if they experience harassment on the internet. Spending more than three hours online each day was linked to a higher risk of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (851+ words) A new study has found that children exposed to secondhand smoke at home have their sleep broken up far more often than unexposed children, even when standard breathing tests come back clean. Kids in smoking homes had about 67 percent more…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (998+ words) Children born during England’s first COVID lockdown have turned four – and a new study reveals that a third of them struggle to focus, follow instructions, and manage their emotions. These children have now started school, and the results suggest teachers…...