Sieun Lee

Imagine a translator in a noisy hall, trying to catch a speech through the buzz of voices. The usual approach is to memorize a set of phrases and slot them into templates. But when the noise cranks up, the template falls apart.

Each year is a new page. From ages 9 to 13, a child's life changes rapidly, and so do their inner experiences. A team of researchers took data from the large ABCD Study survey, in which 11,864 adolescents reported over several consecutive years on their thoughts and actions — whether they had thoughts of suicide, whether they engaged in actions, and whether they harmed themselves without such thoughts.