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While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.

Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling has an important favor to ask of the American people.

Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.

A series of recent studies found that people with healthy levels of vitamin D were less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer severe complications from it.

This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.

The results of this study showed depressive symptoms being highest in adolescence, declining in early adulthood and then climbing back up again into one’s early 30s.

We owe a lot to vaccines and the scientists that develop them. But we’ve only just touched the surface of what vaccines can do.

In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.

Techshot’s 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.

17th-century outbreaks of plague in Italy reveal both tensions between religious and public health authorities.

New research conducted on mice suggests repeated heavy drinking causes synaptic dysfunctions that lead to anxiety.

Researchers from the University of Toronto published a new map of cancer cells’ genetic defenses against treatment.

The number of people with dementia is expected to triple by 2060.

A large-scale study from King’s College London explores the link between genetics and sun-seeking behaviors.

The ‘Charleston Loophole’ has likely allowed thousands of guns to end up in the hands of people who would have failed a federal background check.

Insomnia is the product of mental or emotional pressure.

Stewart is supporting a new bill that aims to extend health care and disability benefits to veterans who served alongside burn pits.

Examining the differences between anxiety and COVID-19 symptoms and discussing the possibility of IAD (illness anxiety disorder) during a global pandemic.

Symptoms of mental illness in children are often dismissed as “going through a phase.”

An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.

The images were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and show how prolific coronavirus can become in a mere four days.

COVID-19 is a tragedy of the commons.

Despite Boseman’s young age, this cancer is increasingly common in people under 50.

The CDC’s latest youth risk survey houses some scary numbers but shows that evidence-based sex education is working.

Various studies examine the impact of humidity, temperature, rain, and sunshine on COVID-19.

The improvement in personal well-being might be worth effort.

Johns Hopkins researchers hope this could lead to new interventions for combating it.

A small proof-of-concept study shows smartphones could help detect drunkenness based on the way you walk.

German researchers have just solved the mystery of how these substances work.

The patient’s second infection was asymptomatic, suggesting that subsequent infections may be milder.