Groundwater depletion in India may triple due to climate warming, study finds

The rate of forced intercourse in early adulthood rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a potential increase in unintended pregnancies and many other sexual…

Young people who challenge social injustice and are politically active show high life satisfaction and better academic performance

Youth involved in community-based activism over time become better critical thinkers and more politically active

Stimulant therapy for ADHD in teens doesn’t increase risk of cocaine or methamphetamine as young adults (ages 19-24)

A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

Caribbean seagrasses provide services worth $255B annually, including vast carbon storage

Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages.

Fast-food advertisements for cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets, and milkshakes increase beliefs that people would feel positive emotions while eating those types of food

Digesta: An overlooked source of Ice Age carbs

Open-source optimization framework for deep learning models (AI) training could cut the carbon footprint by up to 75%

New study shows social media content opens new frontiers for sustainability science researchers

Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

Study found the reusable take-out food containers —which initially use more energy and generate more climate-altering greenhouse gases— can break even with single-use containers after four to 13 uses

More than 90% of vehicle-owning households in the United States would see a reduction in the percentage of income spent on transportation energy—the gasoline or electricity that powers their cars, SUVs and pickups—if they switched to electric vehicles.

See no evil: People find good in villains, new study finds

Nicotine vaping now one of the top forms of substance use among teens, study finds

Century-old question on fluid in lungs answered: A new flow modeled in the body could aid in treatment of patients with lung infections and pulmonary edema

Highly processed foods can be considered addictive like tobacco products

Heat-resistant nanophotonic material could help turn heat into electricity

In a study of rats, researchers discovered that, a diet of high sugar does lower the ability of the taste system to sense sweetness, a 50% reduction in the nerve’s responsiveness to the sweet sucrose (table sugar) solution

Exercise can modify fat tissue in ways that improve health—even without weight loss

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site and was up to 30,000x larger than the energy in the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami

Study: People who lack compassion for the environment are also less emotional in general

Analysis challenges U.S. Postal Service electric vehicle environmental study

Durable coating kills COVID virus, other germs in minutes

Anonymous reporting systems in schools can reduce violence, and increase student connectedness, study finds

People with a parent with a history of alcohol problems are at greater risk for showing signs of addiction to highly processed foods, study shows

Nearly half of US kids live in homes with criminal justice involvement, study shows

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