Welcome to the Null and Noteworthy newsletter, a roundup of papers that do the vital work of reproducing a previous result or reporting the absence of one.

A typically protective stress response could help to explain the connection between maternal illness and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Young male rats can recognize rats they’ve recently met, whereas young females treat new acquaintances like strangers, research shows.

Even when they share identical genetic backgrounds, mice from separate litters show different patterns of development, according to a new study.

Autistic people are at an increased risk for intentional self-harm and death by suicide, but co-occurring psychiatric conditions may drive those behaviors.

Researchers expand a massive repository of data on gene activity in people to show differences between males and females.

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