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Screen time spent gaming or on social media does not cause mental health problems in teenagers, according to a large-scale study.With ministers in the UK considering…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.What do ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls, most french fries and many premade salad dressings…

About half of 18- to 29-year-olds use Reddit, according to Pew Research. Illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed Students returning to the Catholic University of America…

No 10 is facing renewed pressure to ban social media for under-16s after the Conservatives and the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, supported limits…

One of the UK’s biggest teaching unions has called on the government to ban social media for under-16s over concerns about mental health and concentration.The Teachers’…

New York has joined California and Minnesota in passing a law requiring warning labels on social media platforms deemed to have addictive features.Platforms that offer feeds…

My father, Jim Thomas, who has died of cancer aged 61, started out on his career in health and social care as a community nurse in…

Gillian Wagner, who has died aged 98, spent more than 30 years raising the standard of residential care in Britain, the most neglected and maligned and…

In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he…

It is a darkly dystopian vision of Britain’s future, in which tens of thousands die in a bitter civil war in just a few years time.Yet…