A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slender Man will avoid prison after a jury determined Friday that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack. Anissa Weier trembled as the jury's verdict ...
A shared delusion and an interest in the paranormal led two girls to stab another 12-year-old girl in a Wisconsin park as a tribute to the fictional horror character Slender Man, a psychologist testified Wednesday. Melissa Westendorf was appointed by a judge to evaluate one ...
Some people just might be more open to changing their minds than we thought.
While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity. A consortium of five research institutions in Europe ...
Sugar may be bad not only for your teeth and your waistline, but also your mental health, claimed a study Thursday that was met with skepticism by other experts. Researchers at University College London (UCL) compared the reported sugar intake of more than 8,000 people ...
Scientists have for the first time revealed the atomic structure of the tau protein filaments that tangle in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and say it should point the way toward developing new treatments for the disease. Using a technique known as cryo-electron microscopy, a ...
Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
Even moderate drinking is linked to brain damage and a slight decline in mental skills, according to a study released Wednesday that calls into question many national alcohol guidelines. Men and women who consume 14 to 21 drinks a week over decades are two to ...
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you are bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other, from Islamophobes in Europe to South Koreans and Japanese bickering over disputed islands. Take the survival shooter ...
When early humans, including our species, ate their own kind it was more likely for ritual purposes than for a nourishing meal, according to an unusual study released Thursday. Carving up the human body to calculate the caloric value of each part, the study argues ...
Could it be that Japanese take many of the wonderful things about their country for granted?
A 40,000 year old piece of raven bone that was etched with near-even lines suggests Neanderthals had an eye for aesthetics, French researchers said Wednesday. Neanderthals, who were cousins of modern men and who disappeared some 38,000 years ago, are known to have used pigments ...
