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.