Only 37% of US states require sexual education in schools to be medically accurately. Despite overwhelming evidence of the health benefits of school-based sexual education, no federal law requires schools in the United States eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

Evidence on antidepressant withdrawal: an appraisal and reanalysis of a cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From postsynaptic neurons to astrocytes: the link between glutamate metabolism, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

A new study finds that oil and gas pollution caused 91,000 early deaths and over 200,000 asthma cases in the US in 2017. Black and Asian communities bear the greatest burdens, especially near refineries. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

New research catalogs how several “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last decade, are unfolding in Antarctica and its surrounding waters, reinforcing one another and threatening to send grist.org/climate/antarc…

Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability - Reskilling subsidies for workers that enroll in Bachelor's programs after work accidents pay for themselves 4x. This can inform policies for helping displaced workers aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

An observational study showed that GLP-1 agonists decreased the risks of different types of cancer in people with obesity. The only cancer whose risk was not lowered due to those agonists was kidney cancer. medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…

Study finds wild brown anole lizards with highest blood lead levels ever recorded in a vertebrate; can withstand levels 10 times higher before showing any decline in news.tulane.edu/pr/lead-resist…

Most TikTok videos about birth control are unreliable, study finds. Over half (53%) explicitly rejected hormonal birth control, and 34% expressed distrust toward health professionals psypost.org/most-tiktok-vi…

Position affects ACL tear risk for NFL players. Kickers and punters had lowest incidence of ACL injuries, wide receivers(WR), tight ends(TE) had the highest. This is probably because WRs and TEs medicine.missouri.edu/news/player-po…

Insect cognition may be explained by executive functions. A peer reviewed Perspective applies self control, task switching, and working memory to documented behaviors and frontiersin.org/journals/behav…

The Sahel once suffered a huge drought in the 1970s–80s. New research warns that while central and eastern regions may keep getting wetter, the western Sahel could soon swing back to severe drought. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

A systematic review of large language model (LLM) evaluations in clinical medicine | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making doi.org/10.1186/s12911…

Most TikTok videos about birth control are unreliable, study finds. Over half (53%) explicitly rejected hormonal birth control, and 34% expressed distrust toward health professionals psypost.org/most-tiktok-vi…

Chronic exposure to microplastics impairs blood-brain barrier, induce oxidative stress in the brain, and damages neurons, finds a new study on rats. These particles psypost.org/chronic-exposu…

Freeze-framing the cellular world: Researchers develop time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy, which freezes cells with millisecond precision, enabling accurate, high-resolution visualization of transient moments during eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs – but they're being thrown away, new analysis shows minesnewsroom.com/news/us-alread…

Tamoxifen induces PI3K activation in uterine cancer nature.com/articles/s4158…

New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A receptor antagonist counterbalances multiple systemin phytocytokines in tomato cell.com/cell/fulltext/…