We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
People’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.
In Chiles v. Salazar, the court ruled that a therapist has First Amendment protections. That could impact how talk therapy is regulated.
A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.
Heart replicas helped doctors spot good targets for ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.
Conservative pronatalists want a return to the traditional nuclear family. But that family structure is at odds with how humans evolved.
Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where most fossils have been found.
Instagram and YouTube intentionally designed social media platforms to hook users, a landmark court case found. A pediatrician explains the ruling’s impact.
The idea is to control bad cholesterol early in life. Additional tests are also recommended to provide a clearer picture of risk.
Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.
