Rather than being fueled by animosity for the other side — negative partisanship — a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania finds that Americans are at least as motivated by the passion they have for their own party.

A team from the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found flaws in previous research that purported to show meditation could alter the brain’s structure.

Children who spend more time playing adventurously have lower symptoms of anxiety and depression, and were happier over the first Covid-19 lockdown, according to new research.

Adding iodide to a water treatment reactor that uses ultraviolet (UV) light and sulfite destroys up to 90% of carbon-fluorine atoms in PFAS forever chemicals in just a few hours, reports a new study led by environmental engineering researchers at UC Riverside. The addition of iodide accelerates the speed of the reaction up to four times, saving energy and chemicals.