Social media platforms have been accused of causing a range of harms, resulting in dozens of lawsuits across jurisdictions. These lawsuits are situated within the context of a long history of American product safety litigation, suggesting opportunities for remediation outside of financial compensation. Anticipating that at least some of these cases may be successful and/or lead to settlements, this

Capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) are high‐molecular weight glycopolymers that form a capsule layer on the surface of many bacterial species. This layer serves as a crucial barrier between bacteria and their environment, protecting them from host immune responses and environmental stressors while facilitating adaptation to host niches. The capsule also affects other critical virulence factors of plant

An updated and extended meta‐analysis confirms that the central estimate of the social cost of carbon is around $200–250/tC ($700–900/tCO2) with a large, right‐skewed uncertainty and trending up as ethical views have changed. The pure rate of time preference and the inverse of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution are key assumptions, the total impact of 2.5℃ warming less so. The social cost

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The United States faces a growing crisis of social disconnection, marked by increasing rates of loneliness, social isolation, and declining social capital. This has profound implications for public health, as social connection is critical to individual well‐being and societal functioning. The “loneliness epidemic,” as described by the US Surgeon General, is intertwined with broader challenges such

Turker, S., Kuhnke, P., Cheung, V. K. M., Weise, K., & Hartwigsen, G. (2025). Neurostimulation improves reading and alters communication within reading networks in dyslexia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1544, 172–189. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15291 The third author's first name was misspelled. The corrected name is “Vincent K. M. Cheung”. We apologize for this error.

Achieving optimal performance requires effectively resolving emotional conflict arising from the interference of task‐irrelevant, emotionally salient stimuli. While microsaccade behavior has been linked to various cognitive and emotional processes, whether emotional conflict affects microsaccade responses remains to be determined. Additionally, pupil dilation is known to be modulated by emotional conflict

Although loneliness is an unpleasant subjective experience associated with negative consequences, decades of research suggest loneliness is accompanied by adaptive cognitive changes that promote self‐preservation and attempts for social reconnection. This review summarizes theoretical accounts that elaborate how loneliness alters attention and social information processing, then reviews whether findings

This overview of reviews analyzes the impact of diet therapy in the treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents 0−19 years of age. A literature search was conducted in the Cochrane Library, Medline, EMBASE, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Systematic reviews and meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials in obesity treatment from June 2016 to November 2022 were retrieved. Obesity outcomes

Adolescent development is increasingly shaped by social media contexts, with implications for well‐being. In this commentary, we discuss and present conceptual and methodological alternatives for two persistent limitations in prior research. First, most prior work measures screen time, implicitly treating social media as a monolith. Emerging research highlights that social media are multifaceted environments

While scientific consensus on the nature and extent of the harms attributable to increased use of networked screen media remains elusive, widespread expressions of acute concern among first responders to the commodified attention crisis (teachers, therapists, caregivers) should not be overlooked. This paper reviews a series of emergent strategies of collective attention activism, rooted in social practices

This paper reviews the evolutionary processes that shape the evolution of sociality in mammalian species in an effort to understand the importance of sociality in the lives of modern humans. A body of theory and empirical evidence compiled by behavioral ecologists helps us to understand why (some) other animals live in groups, why group‐living animals form differentiated social bonds, how animals benefit

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In 1953, Danely Slaughter proposed the concept of field cancerization, or field effect, to explain the development of additional neoplasia of similar type. A recent theory (de Groen, 2022) states that all DNA is exposed to a constant source of damage, resulting in a constant rate of germline and somatic DNA mutations. If the field effect and constant mutation theories are correct and a single somatic