Satin, silk, and lace may be mainstay materials of wedding dresses, but materials designer Erin Smith hopes brides will consider gowns made of fungus. In fact, she bets that once ladies get over the ...

Roughly 13 percent of American teens have suffered from at least one episode of major depression – that equates to 3.1 million 12- to 17-year-olds. Now, a new study published in the Journal of Youth ...

Minipuberty is a stage of reproductive development during infancy in both sexes when reproductive hormones change and reproductive organs develop. The importance of minipuberty is not well understood ...

Well-known among knitters as the owners of the Yarn Company store in Manhattan and the authors of The Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits, Carles and Jacobs offer up another book marked by the cheerful, ...

Research shows that when boys and girls as old as 10 do math, their patterns of brain activity are indistinguishable. The finding is the latest challenge to the idea that math is harder for girls.