adults

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To conduct the study, the team examined functional brain connectivity in 20 different mouse models and analyzed brain scans from 940 children and young adults with autism.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

County alone, according to the 2025 USC demographic survey, 70.4 percent of homeless adults were already living in the county when they lost housing; 90 percent had been there for at least a year.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Generally once they become adults, the bugs only have a few weeks to shine—and mate—before dying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Surveys commissioned by Virgin Media O2 found UK adults on average spent four hours per day on their phone, with 36% of this taking place unintentionally.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

“Grown-up relationships can be very complicated. Not even adults understand them sometimes.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse