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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Sep-2025 20:11 ET (16-Sep-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

How late college students go to sleep is influenced by the need to belong

American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that bedtime procrastination among college students is socially influenced by the need to belong.

Journal: SLEEP
Funder: Singapore Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation in Singapore
Meeting: SLEEP 2025

Parental engagement associated with better sleep in pre-teen children

American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that strong family relationships and high parental engagement are among the aspects of social connectedness that are associated with sufficient sleep duration in pre-teen children.

Journal: SLEEP
Meeting: SLEEP 2025

Digital service usage reshapes lifestyles and urban structure

Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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A research team from the Urban and Transportation Systems Laboratory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, conducted research on the impact of digital services alternative usage on equity and sustainability in cities. The study reveals how the use of digital services, such as online shopping and remote work, interacts with social networks and demographics to affect residential location choice and urban structure. The results of this research were published in the international academic journal "Sustainability".

Journal: Sustainability

Evidence to support state policies regulating teen use of social media is limited, study finds

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Evidence supporting policies that restrict social media use like school cell phone bans and anti-cyberbullying laws has significant limitations according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Journal: The Milbank Quarterly
Funder: Milbank Memorial Fund

How useful are states’ adolescent social media laws?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bills related to adolescent social media regulation have been adopted in more than half of all U.S. states. Research in The Milbank Quarterly finds that these state policies—such as school cell phone bans and anti-cyberbullying laws—have significant limitations.

Journal: The Milbank Quarterly

HKU professor Guy Abel collaborates on groundbreaking study to measure global migration

The University of Hong Kong
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study co-authored by Professor Guy Abel of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, alongside researchers from Meta and Harvard University, introduces a groundbreaking approach to measuring international migration. Published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research leverages online data to provide the most comprehensive and timely estimates of global migration flows to date.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Can social media predict teen health risks?

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

This fall, researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington will launch an ambitious study to explore how teens’ everyday experiences on social media may shape their mental health and potential substance use.