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May 28, 2024

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A landmark longitudinal study of LGBTQ+ youths has found that transitioning gender identities is not associated with depression and that about 1 in 3 gender-minority youths change their gender identity more than once. In fact, the study found higher ...
The dramatic decline in childhood mortality during the 20th century has added a full year to women's lives, according to a new ...
Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...
PES programs are currently structured in ways that could limit their participation or create incentives to drop out before the full environmental benefits are ...

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A new study suggests that both step and time-based exercise targets are equally useful in protecting against early death and cardiovascular ...

Being stressed while witnessing injustice may push your brain towards altruism, according to a new ...

Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a new study. If expanded, these ...

Managing problematic student behavior is one of the most persistent, challenging, and controversial issues facing schools today. Yet despite best intentions to build a more inclusive and ...

Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests -- including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade ...

So far, biodiversity and agricultural productivity could not be reconciled because the socio-ecological system of agriculture is highly complex, and the interactions between humans and the ...

Researchers offer insights into the ethical dilemmas and legal complexities surrounding brain organoids, especially those derived from human fetal tissue. Their findings advocate for thorough ...

Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990, according to a new study. Over the past three decades, reductions in death from leading killers fueled this progress, including diarrhea and ...

Individuals underestimate the social connection they can make with a stranger who disagrees with them on contentious issues, a new research paper ...

How do you spread a message about climate change? According to an international study involving 59,000 participants, some tactics may actually reduce ...

A new study reveals that US working-age adults are dying at higher rates than their peers in high-income countries; the UK is also falling ...

Researchers have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical principles in the development and governance of AI for ...

Men and women with lower income or education levels are more likely to develop medical conditions related to alcohol abuse compared to similar individuals with a higher socioeconomic status, ...

Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an ...

A new study challenges the prevailing view on the maternal death rate in the United States. The findings show that the rates of maternal death were stable between 1999-2002 and 2018-2021, instead of ...

Researchers used AI to scour information from websites and social media to map bat hunting and trade. Research found evidence of bat exploitation in 22 countries that had not previously been ...

A new study of migrant drowning deaths in the Pacific Ocean lays the groundwork for future ...

In a new article, members of the Strategic Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examine what has happened to public confidence in science, why it has happened, and ...

Accurate 'time of death' estimates are a mainstay of murder mysteries and forensic programs, but such calculations in the real world are often complex and imprecise. In a first-of-its-kind ...

Experts published a detailed position paper on the field of biomedical engineering which lays the foundation for a concerted worldwide effort to achieve technological and medical ...

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