Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin recently received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...

The “Wicked” musical and its offshoot movies are meant to celebrate diversity and preach radical acceptance in the face of rising fascism. The protagonist, the witch Elphaba, is consistently misjudged ...

Total social media time does not significantly affect adolescents' weight concerns or dieting frequency, according to the study's findings. Exploratory analyses suggest potential associations between ...

Researchers say today's AI platforms often default to common biases and stereotypes when prompted to generate images of people, including athletes. When prompted to create images of female and male ...

As a therapist, I often hear people say, “I’ll be happier once I lose weight,” or “I’d feel better if I liked how I look.” Yet for most, that finish line keeps moving. True happiness rarely begins in ...

Americans think negatively about their bodies four times a day — and it’s quietly reshaping their lives. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Eden Health, which ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released an update to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, one of the most popular image formats for web content. Tom’s Hardware writes that ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

We now live in a world where previously unimaginable weight loss outcomes are becoming routine. Thanks to GLP-1 medicines such as Wegovy and Zepbound, physical changes previously seen only through ...

Body appreciation differs between Middle-Eastern and Western societies, a new international study can reveal, highlighting how cultural and family influences shape body image and eating behaviors in ...