Author: Farmer Dell
Treating moms with postpartum depression helps their babies’ brains
by McMaster University New research from McMaster University has found that psychiatric help for mothers with postpartum depression results in healthy changes in the brains of…
Facebook has known for a year and a half that Instagram is bad for teens despite claiming otherwise – here are the harms researchers have been documenting for years
Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by…
Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions – a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries, and regions
Xiaoming Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Atul Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Producing enough food for a growing world population is an…
Is magic immoral? It played a role in the development of early Christianity
Shaily Shashikant Patel, Virginia Tech Americans are fascinated by magic. TV shows like “WandaVision” and “The Witcher,” books like the Harry Potter series, plus comics,…
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections, not vaccines, are the main driver of new coronavirus variants
Vaughn Cooper, University of Pittsburgh and Lee Harrison, University of Pittsburgh The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on…
In Covid-swamped Texas, patients die stranded in rural clinics
2021/9/5 22:33 (EDT)9/5 22:43 (EDT)updated From AFP.com ©Agence France-Presse Houston (AFP) – Daniel Wilkinson survived two tours of duty in Afghanistan but died of gallstones,…
These Are The Most Common Long-Haul COVID Symptoms In Kids
Even children who were initially asymptomatic can develop long-term problems, from fatigue to brain fog. Here’s what parents need to know. By Catherine Pearson 09/03/2021 06:28pm…
Your city just got hotter. NOAA announced new climate normals Tuesday
By Jackson Dill and Monica Garrett, CNN Updated 1:07 PM ET, Tue May 4, 2021 These two side-by-side maps of the contiguous United States depict the…
Finding an elusive mutation that turns altruism into selfish behavior among honeybees
by Oxford University Press Among the social insects, bees have developed a strong and rich social network, where busy worker bees tend to the queen, who…
Science of ‘Seinfeld’
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University It’s been 31 years since a groundbreaking show about nothing first hit the air and…yada yada yada. What better time to…