Brief, culturally-tailored, and scalable stress coping interventions are needed to address a broad range of stress-related health disparities, including among African Americans. In this study, we deve

Tabitha Gana , ST8 general and colorectal surgery , Lesley M Hunt , consultant surgeon Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: L

A crying baby, a screaming adult, a teenager whose voice cracks — people could have sounded this shrill all the time, a new study suggests, if not for a crucial step in human evolution. It’s what we’

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a mix of traits belonging to four facets: affective (e.g., callous/lack of empathy), interpersonal (e.g., grandiosity), behavioral instability (e

Observed arctic amplification The evolution of global mean and Arctic mean temperatures during 1950–2021 is shown in Fig. 1a by considering the four observational datasets: NASA’s Goddard Institute f

New research published in Experimental Neurology provides some initial evidence that the psychedelic substance known as LSD has nootropic properties. The study found that LSD increased markers of neur

A new study from BYU and the University of Virginia analyzed 400 million voter records from elections in 2014 and 2016 and found that minority citizens, young people, and those who support the Democra

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain’s somatosensory or “tactile” cortex, increasing the potential f

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State-specific information on lost earnings due to smoking-attributable cancer deaths to inform and advocate for tobacco control policies is lacking. We estimated person-years of life lost (PYLL) and

There’s nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it’s often not just freshness and flavour that set thei

Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades,

Principal findings Vegetarians but not occasional meat-eaters or pescatarians were at a higher risk of hip fracture than regular meat-eaters in this cohort of UK women. There was no clear evidence of

The ability of policy-making, elected representatives to manage the behavior of policy-implementing, unelected agents is vital to democratic responsiveness and accountability. Accurate information is

Have you ever heard someone say that their significant other knows them better than they know themselves? A study published in the Journal of Research in Personality suggests that though that may not

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The world’s largest multinational tobacco companies are advertising cigarettes to kids near playgrounds and schools i

On May 14, 2018, a tempest straight from The Twilight Zone rained over Oklahoma. Rather than scatter the Earth with jagged lightning bolts, the shrouds of dense clouds powering this storm spit one 50

In our study of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 at two Los Angeles area hospitals, we found that cannabis use was associated with decreased disease severity as assessed by NIH severity score and w

Figure 1 (a) Top: Calculated positions of the wall and capsule materials [gold-lined depleted uranium hohlraum (orange), HDC ablator (light gray), and DT ice layer (blue)] at peak power (6 ns) from r

ABOVE: © ISTOCK.COM, nambitomo In the last decades, science has taught us that the mammalian brain isn’t always entirely awake or asleep. Dolphins can swim with one hemisphere asleep while the other

TUXEDO-1 is an open-label, noncomparative, single-center, single-arm, phase 2 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with newly diag

Drones offer a cheap and low-impact way to deliver small packages.Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Drones that fly packages straight to people’s doors could be an environmentally friendly alterna

Since the benefits of salt substitutes on clinical outcomes are mediated primarily by blood pressure reduction, comparing the effects of salt substitution on blood pressure across SSaSS and other tria

Emergency department workers were the first line of defense against COVID, but their risk of infection was higher when they were not at work in their hospitals. Workers in America’s emergency departm

By K.E.D. Coan, science writer Image: Breck P. Kent/Shutterstock.com Small amounts of highly weathered oil residues from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were still present in the surroundings te

New research has found there are significant differences in the earnings between white and ethnic minority workers who are colleagues in the same workplace. The research, co-led by Bayes Business Sch

Here, we report the identification and validation of new PD-1/PD-L1 small-molecule inhibitors with enhanced therapeutic properties that offer the possibility to circumvent the inherent challenges asso

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Parental help with homework has no significant impact on children’s academic achievement in elementary school, according to Penn State College of Education researchers. “There

As the effects of climate change mount, ecosystem restoration in the US West has garnered significant public attention, bolstered by President Joe Biden's America the Beautiful plan to conserve 30% of

Excessively hot nights caused by climate change are predicted to increase the mortality rate around the world by up to 60% by the end of the century, according to a new international study that featur

New research casts doubt on the conventional wisdom linking psychopathy to murder. The findings, which appear in the scientific journal Personality and Individual Differences, provide evidence that ho

This proof-of-concept analysis shows that exposure to high PFOS levels was associated with increased risk of non-viral HCC, and the likely mechanisms were via alterations in glucose, amino acid, and b

More than half of known human pathogenic diseases such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, can be aggravated by climate change. That eye-opening and startling finding is the topic

Research News A team of researchers at Tohoku University has reported on a novel function of vitamin K, which is generally known for its importance in blood clotting. The researchers discovered that

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new COVID-19 therapeutic that could one day make treating SARS-CoV-2 infections as easy as using a nasal spray for allergies. The

Jefferson Lab experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99% of the ordinary mass in the universe NEWPORT NEWS, V