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U.S. adolescents steadily desisted from risky behaviors such as substance use and violence, and from reporting a combination of both risky behaviors and mental health symptoms. Yet a comparatively ...

Studies of young children give us insight into the building blocks of an ability that most of us use every day ...

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Research finds people who learn the basics of debate are more likely to advance to leadership roles in U.S. organizations. A key reason seems to be that debate training makes employees more ...

Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

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Grace Uhl of Kingston was named to the president’s honor list at the University of South Carolina in Columbia for the fall ...

Research has shown that young people who face adversity such as traumatic or stressful events during brain development are 40% more likely to develop anxiety disorders by adulthood. But most people ...

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