Professor Scott Steffensen and his students found a way to flip the brain's addiction switch without drugs. Their work on the addiction mechanism is published in Science, one of the top two scientific journals. Read it in the Los Angeles Times.
Poor. Unmarried. No role models. These fathers have to define fatherhood as they go. BYU sociologist Renata Forste led a recently published study that included in-depth interviews with 36 such single dads.
What do high bankruptcy rates in Utah and Tennessee tell us about the people that live there? New research by a pair of BYU economists solves the puzzle of why bankruptcy’s popularity changes when you cross state lines.
A new BYU study shows that teenagers catching a movie these days will hear half as much swearing as their parents did 25 years ago. Read the Deseret News story.
Three months after earning student Emmys, two Brigham Young University animated films won student Academy Awards this month. "Pajama Gladiator" took first place and "Kites" third in the animation category. See details at the Academy's site.
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