Shingles is awful, but here's another reason to get vaccinated: It may fight dementia
A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults' risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.
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Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Researchers are debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. But ...
Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It
Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.
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Child and Family Journal (CFJ)
Child and Family Journal for Innovative Practice and Research (CFJ) is a publication providing an integrated practice-research platform for all child and family programs, agencies, and institutions, ...
Scientific American19d
The Nation’s Chief Engineers Turn to Nature to Improve Flood Protection
Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete ... who in 2010 created the EWN program out of the Corps’s research division, where he worked for 30 years. Within weeks after ...
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Scientists Take on Scholarly Journals With Walkouts, Scathing Letters and Delistings
Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...
Nature24d
These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States — do you? Take Nature’s poll
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering ... what is the best decision for myself, my family, my lab, my research and my mental health”, says the ...