Science says: eat with your kids
By Anne Fishel, Harvard Medical School
As a family therapist, I often have the impulse to tell families to go home and have dinner...
Despite research breakthroughs, an anti-aging pill is still a long way off
Sharon Horesh Bergquist, Emory University
Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Invasion of the strange sailor jellyfish – what are they, and will they sting...
By Cathy Lucas, University of Southampton
Billions of small, jellyfish-like creatures known as “by-the-wind sailors” have washed ashore all along the west coast of North...
What the writing on the (bathroom) wall reveals about sex and culture
Pamela Leong, Salem State University
Scrawls, doodles and stylized text adorn the walls of public bathrooms in places ranging from elementary schools to dive bars:...
Time for an Obamacare checkup: how has it affected businesses so far?
Paula A Amato, Northeastern University
This article is part of a series examining the Affordable Care Act as the Supreme Court considers a challenge that...
Why we should mine the Moon
By Ian Crawford, Birkbeck, University of London
To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet;...
How to bring the teen pregnancy rate down
By Colleen McNicholas, Washington University in St Louis
Teen pregnancy is a public health problem in the United States. According to 2010 estimates, girls aged...
Virtual distance: technology is rewriting the rulebook for human interaction
Karen Sobel Lojeski, Stony Brook University and Martin Westwell, Flinders University
Consider the following two situations.
In the first scenario, a man and a woman sit...
