Teenagers may know full well how important final exams are – but that won’t stop some putting in minimal effort. This may be because their brains aren’t developed enough to properly assess how high the stakes are, and adapt their behaviour accordingly. Continue reading “Teenage brains can’t tell what’s important and what isn’t”
Adolescence now lasts from 10 to 24
Adolescence now lasts from the ages of 10 to 24, although it used to be thought to end at 19, scientists say.
Young people continuing their education for longer, as well as delayed marriage and parenthood, has pushed back popular perceptions of when adulthood begins. Continue reading “Adolescence now lasts from 10 to 24”
Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s
- 20% of children born in year 2000 were not living with both parents by 11
- Ease of divorce and lack of shame felt by couples who separate is blamed
- Around 92% of those born to married couples were still living with parents
- But for those cohabiting proportion was only 55%, according to research
- Study also found 1 in 7 had been through more than one family break-up
Four in ten children born in the year 2000 were not living with both parents by the age of 11. Continue reading “Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s”
Early Earth may have had two moons
Earth once had two moons, which merged in a slow-motion collision that took several hours to complete, researchers propose in Nature today.
Both satellites would have formed from debris that was ejected when a Mars-size protoplanet smacked into Earth late in its formation period. Whereas traditional theory states that the infant Moon rapidly swept up any rivals or gravitationally ejected them into interstellar space, the new theory suggests that one body survived, parked in a gravitationally stable point in the Earth–Moon system. Continue reading “Early Earth may have had two moons”
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