Live Event: Nurses: The Most Trusted Profession in an Age of Mistrust
For 21 years, nurses have consistently been the most trusted profession, according to the yearly Gallup poll. (The new poll will be issued by the end of January). Dr Rushton, who specializes in...
View ArticleResearchers take new 'mixed reality' headsets for a spin
Among the buzziest consumer technologies right now are "mixed reality" or "spatial computing" headsets that convincingly blend views of the real world with digital content.
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Researchers reveal the best-selling 'pop' songs of 17th century England
Researchers from Queen's University Belfast and the University of Warwick have compiled the first ever collection of hit songs from seventeenth-century England, including over 100 ballads in total.
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Will Taylor Swift dominate football's greatest stage?
All eyes may not be on the field at Super Bowl LVIII. A web of rumors and conspiracies are swirling around this year's game.
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Research reveals the key to an irresistible online dating profile
In writing a good online dating profile, the average love-seeker is likely to fill it up with all the appealing qualities and interests that make them special.
View ArticleA new way to let AI chatbots converse all day without crashing
When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the...
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Online images may be turning back the clock on gender bias, research finds
A paper published today in the journal Nature finds that online images show stronger gender biases than online texts. Researchers also found that bias is more psychologically potent in visual form than...
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Emojis are differently interpreted depending on gender, culture, and age of...
Gender, culture, and age all appear to play a role in how emojis are interpreted, according to a study published February 14, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yihua Chen, Xingchen Yang and...
View ArticleStudies with more diverse teams of authors get more citations
Diverse research is more impactful in the business management field, with female influence growing stronger in the past decade, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.
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Anti-vaccine conspiracies fuel divisive political discourse
Heightened use of social media during the coronavirus pandemic brought with it an unprecedented surge in the spread of misinformation.
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AI among us: Social media users struggle to identify AI bots during political...
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame conducted a study using AI bots based on large language models and asked human and AI bot participants to engage in political discourse. Fifty-eight percent...
View ArticleScientists Put Forth a Smarter Way to Protect a Smarter Grid
PNNL scientists have put forth a new approach to protect the electric grid, creating a tool that sorts and prioritizes cyber threats on the fly.
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Scientists revolutionize wireless communication with three-dimensional...
Scientists at the University of Florida have pioneered a method for using semiconductor technology to manufacture processors that significantly enhance the efficiency of transmitting vast amounts of...
View ArticleDo violent video games numb us towards real violence?
Neuroscientists from the University of Vienna and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy.
View ArticleNew research sheds light on incel community's connection to mass violence
Though much has been written in the past decade about "involuntary celibates," the rise of violent extremism, and their connection to mass violence, empirical research on this community is surprisingly...
View ArticleWorking with Big Data requires a lot of power! The latest research and...
With the rise in machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that more and more scientists and researchers are turning to supercomputers. Supercomputers are commonly used...
View ArticleWhat happens to our online activity over the switches to and from Daylight...
Researchers noticed that after switching to DST, certain Google searches took place up to an hour earlier than usual. On the other hand, when clocks went back to standard time in autumn, these searches...
View ArticleVirtual Science Writers Conference will uncover the truth behind 'hormone...
The popular TikTok trend of 'hormone balancing' has taken over the internet with claims to balance your hormones with holistic approaches alone, but medical experts question its legitimacy.
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