Psychology

Brain

A bit of stress may help young people build resilience

A comfortable life may sound fun but may not be so healthy in the long run. A study in monkeys shows there may be a ‘sweet spot’ when it comes to stress.

Brain

Puberty may reboot the brain and behaviors

Facing adversity early in life can hurt how children learn to deal with stress. Puberty can sometimes offer a chance to reset how the body responds to stress, returning it to normal.

Humans

Let’s learn about bias

People can be biased, even if they don’t think they are. Luckily, there are ways to fight our biases.

Brain

Sleep helps teens cope with discrimination

Good sleep helps teens better deal with racial and ethnic discrimination.

Science & Society

Five tips for learning better from home

When adapting to learning a new way, such as online from home, you may need to adjust habits and more actively reach out when help is needed.

Science & Society

Learning will change with COVID-19’s social distancing

As COVID-19 has shuttered schools to foster social distancing, the way kids learn is changing. Here are tips from some of the first sidelined classrooms.

Psychology

How to cope as COVID-19 imposes social distancing

As schools close in an effort to curtail the new coronavirus pandemic, we know how you feel and what you’re missing. Here are some tips for coping.

Health & Medicine

This scientist wants to know how racial discrimination gets ‘under the skin’

Racism could have derailed Leticia Márquez-Magaña’s path to science. Now she studies the biological impact of stress faced by underrepresented groups.

Science & Society

Do school-shooter drills hurt students more than they help?

There’s no set standard for shooter drills held at most U.S. schools. Experts are beginning to ask whether certain drills might hurt students more than they help.

Science & Society

Study links racism with signs of depression in Black teens

Among teens, just two weeks of frequent racial discrimination was enough to worsen signs of possible depression, a new study finds.

Psychology

Social media doesn’t, by itself, make teens unhappy or anxious

Checking social media frequently doesn’t necessarily cause unhappiness, a new study finds. Sleep, exercise and cyberbullying are also key.

Brain

Brain ‘ripples’ appear just before you remember something

Nerve cells in the brain’s hippocampus, a key memory center, fire together a second or two before people begin to recall an image, data now show.