Marijuana is enjoying a golden age of cultural advocacy, to such an extent that its medical benefits are exaggerated while the obvious impact on health is trivialized.

America has developed a surveillance problem, hiding behind a facade of security. Britain has been down this road before, the average citizen in London is photographed 300 times per day by government, which has done nothing to reduce crime.

Thus it makes sense that a law academic from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has advice for how to repair the trust of people and foreign governments who feel violated by the administration's tactics.

Children who grow up in dangerous neighborhoods exhibit more aggressive behavior, according to a new paper in Societies.

Lots of U.S. studies have suggested a link between dangerous neighborhoods and aggressive behavior in kids but the authors of the new paper wanted to determine whether the pattern held true worldwide. So they interviewed parents and children from 1,293 families in nine countries: China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States.

The questions involved dangers in their neighborhoods. Based on the answers, the researchers scored the neighborhoods according to their degree of danger.

The difference between 1 and 2 and 101 and 102 is the same, yet children perceive 1 and 2 as being much farther apart, because two is twice as much as one.

It takes years of education to recognize that the numbers in both sets are only one integer apart on a number line. But a new paper shows that different is not necessarily weaker and  educated adults retain traces of their childhood number sense — and that innate ability is more powerful than recognized. 

In every sport, an athlete who has enjoyed long-term success has the opportunity for free agency, when they can join the highest bidder.

Excess abdominal fat is an indicator for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer and a person's measure of such belly fat is reflected in the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference.

Some estimate that genetics account for a broad range, 30 to 60 percent, of this waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).