It’s true, Australia won’t ban ‘sock puppet’ accounts on social media. Here’s why
Australia’s new Digital Duty of Care bill proposes a significant shift in online safety. Rather…
the psychology of why a romantic partner can suddenly repulse you
Ever felt a sudden wave of cringe toward someone you were into – all because…
More Americans now say data centers are negative for the environment, energy costs and more
Americans have grown more negative toward the possible environmental and economic effects of data centers…
I’m a physicist who worked on the Nobel‑winning neutrino search – here’s how a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice became a telescope for ghost particles from space
Standing at the South Pole is the next-best thing to being on another planet. If…
Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer’s researchers new tricks
Most people know someone with Alzheimer’s disease. When I was growing up, my grandmother struggled…
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more
At just after 2am on Saturday morning, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred at Arawata, about…
Where are the best places for life in the cosmos? A universe in a supercomputer yields the answer
Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear…
Silicon Samples and Synthetic Surveys: Can AI Stand In for Human Respondents?
Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath About this research This Pew Research Center report examines whether AI-generated…
Optogenetics wins the Nobel – one neuroscience breakthrough in a line of technological innovations helping scientists map and control the brain
The brain is unbelievably complicated, which is both daunting and fascinating for neuroscientists like me.…
Ancient fossil from China reveals animal-microbe partnerships dating back 550 million years
We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the salmonella bacteria…