UK survey data show 18-to-29-year-olds now spend up to two more hours alone each day than in 2014-15, driven mostly by remote work rather than phone use, even as loneliness rates climbed alongside them.
A new philosophical account reframes moral distress in healthcare: not weakness or poor coping, but a byproduct of the perceptual skill that lets clinicians notice ethical problems in the first place.
Economists are randomizing AI faster than they can finish the trials meant to test it, and most tools will not survive to see their own results published.
Toddlers accounted for nearly all of a 3,307 percent jump in unintentional child drug ingestions since 2000, poison center data show, most of it driven by marijuana edibles that resemble candy and pack multiple doses into one package.
The makers of Digit Party had a score ceiling that no player could exceed, but it was sometimes higher than any real arrangement could achieve. A new mathematical solution finally lets the browser calculate the true maximum.
Splitting money alone, most people picked the fair option. Add a round of voting among 49 strangers and fairness became less about kindness, more about not letting the other person get ahead, a new study finds.
A statistical framework called PGS-TRI reads DNA from a child and both parents to separate inherited autism risk from the influence of the family environment. Tested on 18,383 families, it validated existing genetic risk scores and mapped exactly where they fail.
A two-year Spanish study tracked 201 neuroscience papers and found that articles without a press release drew almost no media coverage, no matter how they performed on social media, revealing who really controls the flow of science news.
A survey experiment with 100 MPs found that they underestimated support for four climate policies, even when costs were made explicit. MPs who thought an environmental pricing policy lacked support said they were less willing to defend it, but a polling-based correction had uncertain effects.
A national survey of 186,823 US adults finds serious cannabis use disorder rising from 2021 through 2024 in men, women, and most age brackets, while serious alcohol use disorder stayed flat or fell. The sharpest jumps came in middle age and beyond.
A decade-old claim that conspiracist thinkers endorse mutually exclusive theories at once was fading. A Bayesian reanalysis of nearly 8,600 people, plus a new experiment, revives it, and pins the effect on two mechanisms.
A study of abrupt Ice Age climate shifts suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation regulates not just where heat goes, but how much of it the whole planet retains.