For the first time, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found 'smoking gun' evidence that Denmark participated in international fur trading in the Viking Age.
Employees who practise mindfulness are less bored at work and less likely to quit, according to a new study.
Structural racism exacerbates cognitive declines of Black children exposed to lead
A strategic approach to reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution can reap major health and temperature benefits, according to new UC San Diego research
Female white-faced capuchin monkeys living in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica may have figured out the secret to a longer life — having fellow females as friends.
A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison shows why letting stereotypes inform our judgments of unfamiliar people can be such a hard habit to break.
Anxiety and fear went hand in hand with trying to learn more about COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in the United States — and the most distressed people were turning on the television and scrolling through social media, according to research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Scott Montgomery (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) shares his new research finding that young people who lost a parent are most likely to be admitted to hospital for drug use or self-harm around the anniversary of their death.
An international team of 18 researchers, including a scientist at University of Utah Health, have determined that the earliest cases of COVID-19 in humans arose at a wholesale fish market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
Intimidation of public health advocates, who are working to save people's lives by fighting the tobacco epidemic, disrupts their work and reduces its impact.
Race-based interpretation of spirometry also normalizes Black adults’ lower lung function
Cognitive Psychologists at the University of Exeter believe they have discovered the answer to a 60-year-old question as to why people find it more difficult to recognise faces from visually distinct racial backgrounds than they do their own.
Black adolescents who lived in poverty and were less optimistic about the future showed accelerated aging in their immune cells and were more likely to have elevated insulin resistance at ages 25-29, researchers found.
UC San Diego researcher warns that economic growth is not possible in the long-term
For decades, studies have shown that children able to resist temptation—opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than take one now—tend to do better on measures of health and success later in life.
When she was a student at Yale School of Medicine more than a decade ago, Dr. Mei Elansary ’12 conducted a project on the Indonesian island of Borneo.
Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.
Study suggests automatically starting benefits at the outset of a recession would remove uncertainty for workers.
Health issues and loss, social isolation and mental health problems – the pandemic has had a drastic effect on our society.
A new study has found a rise in racial apathy — in other words, not caring about racial inequality — among young white adults.