A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future ...

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The FAMILY consortium, an EU-funded study, aims to understand the intergenerational transmission of mental illness risk ...

Statistics that quantify a person’s predisposition to diseases such as diabetes and cancer can be reverse-engineered to reveal the underlying genetic data, prompting privacy concerns ...

Amanda Miller was 30 and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After she gave birth, her depression worsened. It was joined by a slew of unexplained ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators help diagnose and treat mental illness.

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While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

Scientists have developed an AI system that analyzes complex gene-expression signatures to estimate the likelihood that a tumor will spread.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Farm animal advocates have, over the last few decades, successfully drawn public attention to and meaningfully reduced the ...