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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Consumption of ultra-processed foods – including soft drinks, snacks and ready meals – is growing worldwide, despite evidence they are unhealthy.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up about 70 percent of packaged food products on supermarket shelves, and even more in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If you watched the Super Bowl in 2026, you likely saw Serena Williams share her weight loss journey on GLP-1 medications in a commercial.
Like millions of others around the country, if you’ve ever considered taking one of these drugs, you probably went online to learn...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the United States of America.
President Donald Trump’s April 2025...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nation Human Behaviour.
Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms.
Meth is addictive because it increases dopamine levels in the brain. While...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an animal feeding bin – “because there was no room for them in the inn.”
No mere babysitters, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an animal feeding bin – “because there was no room for them in the inn.”
No mere babysitters, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school year by buying supplies, filling out forms and meeting teachers. This year, many parents also face a question that’s more complicated than usual: Should my child get an updated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the...
Amherst, MA — Since the beginning of 2023, 49 U.S. state legislatures have introduced over 500 anti-trans bills. While mainstream media increasingly cover violence and legislative attacks against trans people, many scholars and activists worry that focusing just on violence and discrimination fails...