A Loving bond with mother may prevent abusive relationships
In a new study, researchers found a mother's warmth and acceptance toward her teenagers may help prevent those children from being in an abusive...
What Reddit’s basketball fans can tell us about online discourse
Basketball season kicked off last month and with it comes the return of the most enduring of fan traditions: trash talk.
Now, researchers from the...
More merry than scary: 11 Halloween safety tips for parents
The costumes, the creatures … the candy! Halloween is a landmark holiday for many families.
But keeping your kids’ memories of the event special and...
Who owns the content on social media?
‘What’s on your mind?’ asks Facebook.
You upload a photo of yourself posing on a secluded beach in the Greek Islands and enter the caption,...
How much is too much? Moderate use of screen time can be good for...
New study has found that moderate levels of screen time can have a positive effect on children’s wellbeing and mental health.
Based on data from...
5 scary health facts to spook you this Halloween
Spooky, scream-inducing characters whose health has clearly taken a turn for the worse – skeletons and ghosts, for example – are as much a...
This Halloween, people more scared of root canals than spiders, snakes, sharks
Part of the fun of Halloween is being afraid – very afraid – but, it turns out at least one of our top fears...
NAZI scientists created an alternative to DDT pesticide
DFDT, a fast-acting insecticide, has an alarming history, researchers report.
“We set out to study the growth of crystals in a little-known insecticide and uncovered...
Scientists rediscover fast-acting German insecticide lost in the aftermath of WWII
Fluoridated DDT swiftly kills disease-carrying mosquitoes, which may lower its environmental impact -- but its history is alarming.
A new study in the Journal of...
Nobel Prize winners’ exoplanet discovery started a ‘remarkable era of discovery’
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to a Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists for their work in understanding how the universe...