Researchers found that teens who had dogs were more sociable than those who didn't, and said it could be due to sharing microbes Getty A recent study found that having a dog at home may boost the ...

My local Target was the first place I noticed the shift. One day, a few years ago, a sign appeared: red text on white paper announcing that no one under 18 would be allowed in without an adult. Before ...

A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...

My research with teenagers consistently shows that the harms young people experience online are not separate from the harms they face offline. Bullying, racism, sexism, coercion, exclusion and body ...

Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was not the product of evolution but descended from semidivine beings who left the ...

For the first time since the 2009 US Open, five teenagers are into the third round of a major. Mirra Andreeva, Iva Jovic, Victoria Mboko, Tereza Valentova and Nikola Bartunkova all advanced to the ...

For many parents, prying a teenager’s eyes from TikTok or Instagram is a nightly battle. For those whose children have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it can feel like a never-ending ...

Emily Setty receives funding from ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, University of Surrey and various government, third-sector and for-profit organisations. The UK government has launched a consultation on ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Boys tend to use protein supplements mainly for muscle ...

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).