Yong Zhao, an education scholar at the University of Kansas, argues in a new paper that it is time for education to move away from meritocracy. The assumptions of meritocracy, that hardwork and ability will reward the hardest working and most gifted students, simply have not proven true and instead have created unhealthy competition, worsened uneven playing fields and left too many students behind, Zhao argues. Instead, schools should use the human interdependence paradigm, which would allow all students to guide their own education and learn to meaningfully solve problems via their strengths.

The American Heart Association announces the appointment of two leading health and science leaders, Jennifer Ashton, M.D., M.S. and Joseph Woo, M.D., FAHA, to its volunteer Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2025.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are changing how people date and connect. In a survey from the Kinsey Institute and DatingAdvice.com, 59% of GLP-1 users reported the drug had at least one side-effect on their dating life and 52% said it had at least one side-effect on their sex life. "These shifts have the potential to reshape how people build intimacy in today’s dating landscape," says Kinsey Institute social psychologist and research scientist Dr. Amanda Gesselman. 

Adverse experiences and environments in childhood may cause a chain reaction of mental and physical health problems later in life, according to new University of Georgia research.

After Brexit, London slowed down investments in Europe. While Europe continues to focus on the United Kingdom. A recent study in Research Policy, co-authored by Vincenzo Butticè, Annalisa Croce and Andrea Odille Bosio from the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and Simone Signore and Andrea Crisanti of the European Investment Fund (EIF) shows these findings.

A new mathematical model shows how the costs for farmers change when their plants develop fungicide resistance. It was developed by an international research team.