Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.
Kids whose mothers drank "moderately" scored just as well on a balance test at age ten. This adds to a growing body of evidence that women may not have to stay away from all alcohol during pregnancy. More »
People who were hospitalized for an infection were 62 percent more likely to later develop a mood disorder. More »
A large, long study found that children had worse academic outcomes after being treated with one particular stimulant. More »
Women had a lower rate of serious complications when they chose to give birth at home instead of in a hospital. More »
Readers scored the same on comprehension tests regardless of the medium. More »
No more waiting around to publish an interesting finding in a medical journal More »
Irregular heartbeats were more common among the top performers in an extreme cross-country ski race. More »
You're supposed to spend long enough to sing "Happy Birthday" twice. More »
People with depression are at a 32 times increased risk, while social factors are more closely associated with suicide in men than in women. More »
We'll know Arrested Development's new season has succeeded when its catchphrases become ubiquitous as the old ones did. More »
Pre-regatta rowers were more likely to agree with Carl Sagan that "in a demon-haunted world, science is a candle in the dark." More »
People's skin aged less with the use of sunscreen every day, rain or shine. More »
College men are somewhat more reasonable when they've slept. More »
After spending five minutes looking at their own profiles, students did significantly worse on a simple math test. More »
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it. More »
British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends. More »
Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength. More »
Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies. More »
Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation. More »
Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning. More »
