Graeme Brown is an editor with Brown Brothers Media. He reviews articles before and after publication, checking sourcing, clarity and accuracy across the network's psychology and science coverage. He is based in Australia.
A meta-analysis of 31 samples and more than 11,000 young people links conditional parental love to fragile self-worth and depressive symptoms, with withdrawal of affection carrying the clearest link to low mood.
Nov 12, 2026
Harvard researchers found some people consistently help any team they join beat expectations, and the trait that set them apart was skill at reading others, not IQ.
Nov 11, 2026
Elite endurance athletes do most of their training at an easy pace, and studies of tens of thousands of everyday runners link even short, slow runs to a lower risk of death.
Nov 10, 2026
At 15, being in demand and being close to someone can look like the same kind of social success.
Nov 9, 2026
In a 2022 Science Advances study, the people most opposed to the scientific consensus tended to be the most overconfident about their science knowledge, and it cost them when they bet on beating the average.
Nov 4, 2026
Members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 who grew up with fluoridated drinking water scored no lower on IQ tests as teenagers than classmates who grew up without it, once family background was taken into account.
Oct 17, 2026
For 31 days in a row in July 2023, Phoenix hit 110°F or more. The air was also very dry, and by the yardstick many climate studies use to decide whether heat can be survived, a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C (95°F), the city never came close to danger.
Oct 16, 2026
