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A factory at sunset in Cleveland, Ohio

Kids' Mental Health Risks Rise with Poor Air Quality

By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe last updated

Higher levels of air pollution may be linked with worse mental health in children, a new study suggests.

Pollution
Here's a look at the science of flu shots. Shown here, a vial and syringe.

Flu shot facts and side effects

By Rachael Rettner, Nicoletta Lanese published

The seasonal flu shot is a yearly vaccine that protects against the flu, or influenza. Here's what you need to know about it.

Flu
Four babies sitting on floor playing with colorful number and letter blocks.

In which month are the most babies born?

By Charles Q. Choi published

Which of the 12 months has the most births? And why do babies tend to be born at certain times of the year?

Planet Earth
Two of the ghost footprints uncovered in Utah's great Salt Lake Desert.

'Ghost footprints' left by ancient hunter-gatherers discovered in Utah desert

By Harry Baker published

The eerie prints appear only after it rains.

Archaeology
bottle of melatonin tablets with pills on a table

Melatonin poisonings on the rise in US kids

By Nicoletta Lanese published

About 4,000 children were hospitalized after ingesting huge amounts of melatonin.

Sleep
Images depicting the process the researchers used to analyze prenatal brain scans. (a-b) In-utero MRI images used in the study, (c) an MRI image after processing to mask the brain from the external tissue, (d) automatic segmentation of the brain structures, and (e) analysis of the segmented structures.

Brain differences tied to autism can be detected in the womb

By Rachael Rettner published

A brain region known as the insular lobe was larger in those that went on to develop autism, compared with controls.

Mind
The wall of a BioMarin facility displaying the company's name

1st drug to treat genetic cause of dwarfism approved by FDA

By Nicoletta Lanese published

The drug is designed to stimulate bone growth and increase height in affected children.

Genetics
young girl receiving a finger prick test at the doctor's office

Number of kids diagnosed with lead poisoning could double with new CDC standard

By Nicoletta Lanese published

Experts say that the change in criteria was overdue.

Medicine & Drugs
Illustration of Y-shaped antibodies on a blue background

'Rogue' antibodies found in brains of teens with delusions and paranoia after COVID-19

By Nicoletta Lanese published

Autoantibodies may sometimes be involved in the psychiatric effects of COVID-19.

Coronavirus
neurons

11 children diagnosed with new form of ALS

By Rachael Rettner published

The researchers have pinpointed a gene that seems to cause this form of the disease.

Neuroscience
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