Researchers in Japan have developed a new technique for creating polymers which is expected to lead to the development of plastics that are more environmentally friendly, heat resistant, and transparent.

Children and teens’ mobile use is a significant source of family arguments, with new research shedding light on the issue to help millennial parents who are literally making it up as they go when it comes to digital media use in the home.

New research shows little difference in mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth between some of California's most and least supportive communities for sexual and gender diversity. The findings also indicate factors that may be contributing to this trend.

Disruption of the circadian clocks that keep the body and its cells entrained to the 24-hour day-night cycle plays a critical role in weight gain, according to a pair of studies by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Behavioral scientists have long researched how to help children cope with extreme adversity – such as poverty or exposure to violence. Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, thinks she’s found the answer in rural China.

A study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the UK and Ireland has been published this week in the journal PNAS by an Oxford-led research team . The paper compares the environmental impacts of meat and meat alternative products such as plant-based sausages or burgers, and finds many meat alternatives had a fifth to less than a tenth of the environmental impact of meat-based equivalents.