The Handbook of Children and Screens, published earlier this year, handily summarizes studies on the impacts of digital media on young people’s development. The book took nearly 400 specialists and 87 chapters to cover the thousands of studies done. And yet, as we report in a News Feature, the debate among researchers about whether smartphones…

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe In reality, research projects grow through an evolutionary process. Variation — the substrate of evolution — is provided through the emergence of new questions and avenues of investigation. The research team must then choose which directions to pursue, a process akin to natural selection1. Along with this evolution…

There’s a book perched near the top of The New York Times bestseller list about what’s wrong with kids today. The Anxious Generation (2024), by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, argues that increasing time spent on smartphones and social media, at the expense of play, is rewiring the brains of children and adolescents and driving soaring rates…

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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: Sandip Guha The month’s best science images This shot of a pair of courting crab spiders, taken by nature photographer Sandip Guha in Shiliguri, India, highlights the difference in size between the male and his…

For decades, one country more than any other has been a magnet for global research talent. The United States became the world’s science and technology power by funding students and researchers not only from inside its borders, but from around the world, to study, experiment, innovate, found companies and scale them up. It’s an environment…

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The European Commission is currently discussing a regulation to monitor European forests1. The goal is to implement a monitoring framework that provides baseline information for assessing the effects of ongoing climate changes, including extreme weather events, on European forests. The monitoring programme is designed to inform policy developments…

Bulgarian former minister Ekaterina Zaharieva is the new European Union commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation.Credit: Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Brussels Ekaterina Zaharieva is the European Union’s new commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation. After a long career in the Bulgarian government, including as justice minister, she took office in December. Far-right governments seek to…

Jay Bhattacharya took office as director of the US National Institutes of Health on 1 April.Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency — including the country’s top…

Featured Programming Includes New Episodes of NATURE and NOVA, a New Season of CHANGING PLANET, and  New Seasonal Content from PBS KIDS Favorites ARLINGTON, VA; April 1, 2025— This Spring and early Summer, PBS will celebrate science and nature programming with dramatic stories, transformative journeys, explorative investigations, and more. From April leading into the Summer,…