For countries with high Islamic prevalence, giant oil and gas discoveries depress female workforce participation not because of the discoveries themselves but because of restrictions on women's mobility in many Muslim-majority countries, according to a new study that contradicts previous hypotheses.

News stories presented as fact-checks could help readers update their beliefs more accurately than conventional news articles, but such stories are also perceived to be more biased, new research suggests.

Natural climate solutions could help Canada mitigate up to 78.2 teragrams of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to the emissions associated with powering every home in Canada for 3 years, helping the country meet or exceed its goals under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to new research published Friday.

People who report feeling a stronger sense of empathy toward a person they have victimized may be capable of higher-quality apologies, supporting the idea that interpersonal empathy-building techniques could help preserve and repair relationships.

Rapid whole-genome sequencing as a first-line test can save babies' lives and reduce health care costs by thousands of dollars per patient, a paper published Friday says.

Girls are more likely than boys to be bullied by their peers, and they may be disproportionately turning to illicit substances such as alcohol and marijuana as a result, according to a new analysis of data from 2011 through 2017, obtained through the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which collects demographic and health behavior information from U.S. high school students.

Rates of sexually transmitted infections are going to "skyrocket" — a ripple effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and an indictment of the chronic underfunding of public health services, the researcher behind a new study said.

Christians are not more likely to vote for far right political parties than nonreligious voters, but not necessarily because their religious values make them more tolerant or pro-social, according to new research from Europe.

When gender minority adolescents, including transgender teens, are exposed to transphobia and other gender-related stressors, they are more likely to use alcohol to cope, but family and social support, as well as gender-related pride, can moderate the use of substances, according to trailblazing longitudinal research from Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Children with autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability that involves deficits in social communication and interaction, are more likely to be killed by their parents than by any other group of adults, and most often in response to the stress of having to care for the child, according to a recent analysis of 706 news media articles on homicide incidents involving autistic child victims in the United States.

Women who experience aortic dissection, an uncommon but deadly tear in the body’s largest artery, seek treatment later and are statistically more likely to die, even though the majority of people who get this condition are men, according to new research.

If we want to desegregate American schools, we have to start talking about white people, a legal scholar argues.