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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more parents of teenagers in the United States started buying firearms, according to a recent study.This post was originally published on this site

“Single Sydneysiders hit hard by intimate partner bubble rule” was the headline last week, referring to the lockdown restrictions that prevented those living alone from having visitors not deemed to be an intimate partner.This post […]

All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry.This post was originally published on this site

When communicating in mostly white settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new study by […]

The French parliament has passed a law mandating the use of a COVID-19 health pass in order to access public spaces such as restaurants, cinemas, trains and museums. The pass provides proof that the holder […]

Large cities are often viewed as cold, fast-paced environments where crime rates are high and interpersonal interactions are fleeting—a combination that makes them detrimental to mental health. But new research provides evidence for the opposite: […]

American prisons and jails currently hold more than 2 million people—many of them jailed while awaiting trial or serving extremely long prison sentences. New research by Professor Christopher Slobogin, who holds a Milton R. Underwood […]

In the past few years, smartphones have been labeled as the key culprit behind scores of mental and physical ailments, from loneliness to boredom to addiction. But such conclusions are not warranted if we do […]

A report co-authored by the University of Strathclyde and Goldsmiths, University of London has highlighted the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people.This post was originally published on this site

A country’s cultural values, social norms and policies influence how many children people have—particularly among the religious, new Cornell research shows.This post was originally published on this site