SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Adverse experiences in early life are emerging as major risk factors for numerous mental and physical illnesses across lifespan ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...

New research suggests that difficult experiences in childhood may prime the nervous system for chronic pain later in life. A ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. But these good intentions are too broad to be successful. Behavioral scientists have long shown ...

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 lifelong ...

Prenatal and early-life factors significantly influence childhood obesity trajectories, highlighting the need for early interventions to promote healthy growth. The study assessed prenatal exposure to ...

Early life "luck" plays a pivotal role in shaping individuality and success, particularly for males, according to a new study in mice. In male animals, competitive social dynamics amplified small ...