Maternal socialization, not biology, shapes child brain activity

Just 15% of CBD-infused oil, beverages, and other products are labeled correctly

Study: Fewer than 25% of patients with certain pacemakers or defibrillators have updated device firmware that guards against potential cyberattacks, increasing the likelihood of inappropriate shocks and potentially worsening heart failure.

Microfossil data reveals Early Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age Societal Collapse Events coincided with intervals of increased environmental aridity on Cyprus, providing further context to an old debate- did Climate Change cause the catastrophic fall of Bronze Age civilization in the Mediterranean?

Researchers make progress in understanding X chromosome inactivation in the early female embryo

Looking beyond the picky eating of childhood, researchers looked at this behavior in college students

Study suggests that gender gaps in leadership can be eliminated by assuming every employee is interested in a leadership role (unless they say otherwise)

Study: When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher

SSRI antidepressant paroxetine cause persistent alterations in neurosteroid levels which could be implicated in Post-SSRI syndrome or PSSD

US States that exhibit higher levels of systemic racism also have pronounced racial disparities regarding access to health care

Individuals in lower-income US counties or high support for former President Trump continue to be less likely to socially distance

Physical discipline (spanking or slapping on the arm, hand, or leg) and cognitive deprivation (not counting or reading with a child over the past 3 days and the absence of books in the home) linked to specific types of developmental delay…

Ranking programming languages by energy efficiency

Structural racism can lead to discrimination in many aspects of life including criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power and education

Sleep loss hijacks brain’s activity during learning

Children who received intervention experienced significant improvements in behavioral regulation and liking of fruits and vegetables, according to a study

The "natural experiment" caused by the shutdown of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 2-h shift in the sleep of developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness compared to those experienced under the regular school-time schedule

Women, particularly US-born Black women, in states with restrictive reproductive rights policies deliver more low birth weight babies & experience greater health inequities

New study calculates alarming lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the US

Scientists have found an increased global mortality linked to arsenic exposure in rice-based diets.

People who inherited a special ion channel from Neanderthals experience more pain.

Individuals exposed to early life stress (ELS) were more likely to develop a major depressive disorder (MDD) in childhood or adolescence than individuals who had not been exposed to ELS

NAC as treatment for influenza and COVID-19. Found to cut death rate of mice infected by flu by 50%

Scientists confirm a 100 year old (but since then debunked) hypothesis that single-celled organisms are capable of hierarchical decision making (varied responses to irritant particles) - they were able to reproduce the results using the same S

Scientists find a mutation in a gene called ADRB1 allows individuals in one family to sleep as little as 4.5 hours per night without feeling tired - they then bred rats with the same mutation…

What makes some people more receptive to the idea of being vaccinated against infectious disease

Our new study on the association between cannabis use and psychiatric disorders in people with personality disorders

Not all cannabis users develop an addiction, even with long-term regular use, suggests a new study, which found a shift from brain systems controlling reward-driven use to habit-driven use differentiates heavy cannabis users who are addicted to the drug from users who aren’t.

A longitudinal experimental shows that teaching people about the science behind GM foods results in more positive attitudes, greater willingness to eat GM products…

Dark sides of extraversion: a new study demonstrates that extraversion clouds interpersonal judgement

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