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The Crisis Text Line’s AI-driven chat service has gathered troves of data from its conversations with people suffering life’s toughest situations.

The league was using stereotypes about Black people's cognitive function as part of its concussion settlement fund. But they didn't invent the idea.

Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online

Even as grieving families tried to warn Amazon and other e-commerce sites of the danger, there were more purchases and more deaths.

Could traits typically attributed to females like accommodating, supporting, nurturing, and caring cause students to rate a female professor differently than a male? Studies show these traits cause females to be held to higher standards by students and given harsher evaluation ratings.

More attention should be paid to the reasons they stick with their academic pursuits, rather than looking only at the reasons so many leave.

Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.

As California grapples with a massive shortage of behavioral healthcare workers, state lawmakers want to offer financial incentives to attract and retain professionals to improve access to mental health services.

The results were mixed.

One of my favorite parts of working at a university is getting to teach. I find biology utterly fascinating and magical, and getting to impart that to students is an incredible joy. Although I don’t currently teach in my position as a postdoc, I do spend a lot of time thinking about how to be a bett

Why it's so hard to process new COVID information

The scholar Myisha Cherry discusses rage as a tool in the fight against racial injustice.

Dr Megan Mooney is suing Texas governor Greg Abbott to stop his classification of gender-affirming care as ‘child abuse’

Research shows that survivors of abuse can sustain head trauma more often than football players. But they are almost never diagnosed.

CBS46 Investigates takes a look inside what some are calling an incentive system that encourages Atlanta Police officers to arrest more people.

Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received ‘certification’

Tiny cells, lacking medical treatment and sweltering conditions cited by judge who blocked extradition.

The latest edition of the DSM-5, sometimes known as “psychiatry’s bible,” includes a controversial new diagnosis: prolonged grief disorder.

For the past nine months, one topic has been at the forefront of our national conversation about the 2016 election: Ted Cruz's face. "Hating a face like that, the O.G. face made for punching, is actually super easy," Wonkette said of Cruz's…

Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.

Locked-in ALS patient also asked to listen to Tool ‘loud’ and ordered a curry

Of those surveyed, 38% reported harassment, from online insults to death threats

Studies show female patients and people of color are more likely to have their symptoms dismissed by medical providers. Experts say: Keep asking questions.

Nearly 30 percent of the teens surveyed said a parent or other adult in their home lost work during the pandemic, and a quarter struggled with hunger. Two-thirds said they had difficulty with schoolwork.

A study of the psychology behind this common rhetorical tactic.

Buzzwords like machine learning and artificial intelligence continue to garner million-dollar investments and clickbait headlines.

Early tests have been promising, but issues involving bias, privacy and mistrust of “black box” algorithms are possible pitfalls.