Society

Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the “20-year-rule”—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to Northwestern University scientists, that observation isn’t just anecdotal. It’s a mathematical reality.This article is […]

Getting tough on youth crime is politically easy. Building a youth justice system that is safe, accountable and capable of learning is much harder. And the public is worried. Some offenses are serious and visible, […]

Approximately 14% of college students across the United States experience period poverty, meaning they cannot afford to purchase or access menstrual products. A new study of 462 college students in the University of Hawai’i school […]

Is your phone use hurting your relationship? A study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests it might be.This article is brought […]

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg, appearing in Transactions of […]

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and colleagues.This […]

Going vegan is a life-changing decision. Successfully committing to eating only ethically sourced, non-exploitative products—no dairy, no honey, no eggs, no animal output of any kind—can be daunting, especially in a society where most people […]

When the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. emerged in January 2020, many Americans began to confront the reality of death. Six years later, researchers at the University of Florida and Hanyang University in […]

Playing a virtual reality game can increase a person’s sense of altruism and influence levels of empathy, according to a new study from University of Oregon researchers.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.