The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded project, Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Study, or RURAL, seeks to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and ...

A college degree is supposed to be the great equalizer in the labor market, promising upward mobility and better pay for all. But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Yet, in at least one case, an attempt to dislodge a myth had a curious boomerang effect: The media reverb interpreted the study ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to increased cardiovascular risk, but its association with carotid atherosclerosis in the general population is less well studied. We examined ...

High school students in states that require universal background checks on all prospective gun buyers are less likely to carry guns compared to students in states that require background checks only ...

Background checks alone might not be enough to reduce shooting deaths in the United States, a new study warns. States that require gun permits, rather than relying solely on universal background ...

In a new study, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego found that the background music in shark documentaries affects viewers’ perceptions of ...

Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that ...