While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones ...

Human development is influenced by ... bringing an increasingly early end to childhood. Both genetic and environmental factors influence the onset of puberty, and observers believe that its ...

New research reveals that early growth patterns can help predict adult height and pubertal growth, but not when puberty will begin—challenging assumptions about how early development shapes ...

Traditionally we think of myopia as progressing in children and early adulthood but then leveling off. New insights indicate that when examining myopia over decades, small changes do occur and can ...

A poet enters the arena of a family gathering in Hong Sangsoo's 'What Does That Nature Say to You,' a film that takes surprising visual form.

As a result, early adult death rates in 2023 were about 70% higher than they might have been if death rates had not begun to rise about a decade before the pandemic. Researchers from the ...