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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The likelihood that a girl will participate in high school sports in the United States is driven not so much by individual choice, new research suggests. Instead, decisions made by parents, the wealth of one's family and community, and racial dynamics matter. By combining interviews with elite college athletes and…

Director Matthew Vaughn has openly discussed his hopes to launch a franchise with the new meta spy thriller Argylle... but the first step toward making that happen was the film having a standout opening weekend at the box office, and that hasn't play out as hoped in the last three days. Thanks to an extremely slow start to 2024, the feature can presently claim to be the #1 movie in the United States and Canada, but the actual numbers suggest that audiences weren't particularly interested in the big screen offering.With…

Tanya Lewis: Hi, this is Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!Josh Fischman: We bring you the latest vital health news: Discoveries that affect your body and your mind.  Lewis: And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy. I’m Tanya Lewis.Fischman: I’m Josh Fischman.Lewis: We’re Scientific American’s senior health editors. Fischman: Today’s episode covers a topic that many parents-to-be have struggled with: fertility. In vitro fertilization offers a path to pregnancy for people…

16 years after Robert Downey Jr. beat him to the leading role in Iron Man, we’re still waiting on Tom Cruise to enter the Marvel universe. But at least his odds just went up thanks to the Multiverse Saga’s latest casting twist. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Thunderbolts may have just found its Sentry. Following Steven Yeun exiting the project due to scheduling conflicts, and reports that Austin Abrams turned down the opportunity to fill his role, actor Lewis Pullman is in early talks to join the Jake Schreier…

Tom Cruise‘s 2023 maybe didn’t go exactly the way he was planning. After he single-handedly “saved cinema” with 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, everyone expected Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning to similarly blow up the box office. Except it didn’t. Clearly, Cruise is in need of a new franchise. Enter… DC? Earlier this week, the Ethan Hunt actor was announced to have signed a new deal with Warner Bros. to produce both franchise and standalone movies for the studio, which left fans convinced that Cruise was about to be…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Conventional wisdom suggests that searching online to evaluate the veracity of misinformation would reduce belief in it. But a new study by a team of researchers shows the opposite occurs: Searching to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles actually increases the probability of believing misinformation. The…

The Dodgers will unwrap their spectacular holiday prize Thursday with the introductory news conference of Shohei Ohtani, the two-way superstar and two-time American League most valuable player. There’s global appeal with the event scheduled for Thursday afternoon because that’s Friday morning for the audience in Japan.Missing from the festivities will be Dodgers team physician Neal ElAttrache, who has a full slate of NFL surgeries to perform.For him, it’s a routine Thursday.“It’s not that I don’t think it’s a monumental…

Illustration of different quads proposed in the s(quad) model. Credit: Frontiers in Social Psychology (2023). DOI: 10.3389/frsps.2023.1278671 While the holiday season typically brings joy, cheer and celebration, a significant number of people feel lonely. Previous studies and explanations for loneliness have only looked at people's need to belong and…

Bill Gates said the world probably won't meet the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C. But he praised the COP28 summit for making progress on tackling climate change despite geopolitical tensions.“Climate progress is moving ahead even though we won't meet our highest aspirations,” he said in Bloomberg TV, citing the biggest-ever attendance at the annual United Nations summit and announcements on food and health initiatives. Keeping warming to 2C, the weaker goal agreed on at COP21 in Paris, “isn't…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Numerous research studies have suggested that children from a single-parent family are worse off than those who have two parents at home. These findings chime with decades of stigma that have painted coming from a single-parent home as undesirable. Understandably, you may find this worrying if you…