Babies start out life helpless and stay that way for a long time. They cannot walk, feed themselves or survive without an adult's continued care. Our dependency timeline has no clear parallel elsewhere in the animal kingdom.
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Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.
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New University of Georgia research suggests that social media could influence people's travel plans. The paper is published in the journal Current Issues in Tourism.
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A new study suggests the sounds around us have a significant impact on how we feel about physical spaces, with natural sounds—such as birdsong—associated with a greater sense of attachment to a given place. The study draws ...
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People who experience greater hardship throughout their lives may become more susceptible to conspiracy theories when those experiences lead them to see the world as fundamentally unfair, according to new research.
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The start of the school year brings a familiar list of responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keeping track of forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of emails from teachers and ...
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A cat-training program for children with developmental disabilities fostered healthy behaviors in children, strengthened relationships between children and their family cats and improved cats' social behavior, a new study ...
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When academic research has explored the impact of school summer vacations, it has often focused on the costs to parents and children's learning and health.
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Among Gen Z, 79% want a job mainly focused on helping people or making a positive difference in others' lives. But only about half of workers ages 18–29 who want such a position say they have one.
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For firefighters, physical fitness is a matter of safety, survival and long-term health. While past research has largely focused on individual habits, a new study has revealed that station leaders play a critical role in ...
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