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Working in groups can help Republicans and Democrats agree on controversial content moderation online

Over half of Americans believe tech companies should take action to restrict extremely violent content on their platforms, according to Pew data, yet even trained content moderators consistently disagree in their decisions about how to […]

Federal Earned Income Tax Credit has unexpected result, researchers say—it decreases domestic violence

Fifty years since the federal earned income tax credit went into effect and a team of researchers from UConn and City University of New York have identified an unintended benefit of the antipoverty program—a significant […]

Study shows the 2008 recession caused people to identify with a lower class

Class identity, which is how individuals view their economic and social positions in relation to others, has wide-ranging effects on people’s well-being, thoughts, and behavior. Previous studies have shown that people who identify with a […]

Report calls on the UK banking industry to consider interventions that ‘design out’ economic abuse

Researchers have published the findings of a new study that brought together victim–survivors and banking professionals to co-design ways of preventing economic abuse in the U.K. banking industry.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term

A study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can significantly […]

‘Lifting and shifting’ workers is not always the best answer

What happens to an organization when employees transfer between jobs internally? Does it matter whether a single worker transfers or if a team of employees is “lifted and shifted” together?This article is brought to you […]

Disciplinary confinement in prison does more harm than good

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in Quebec’s provincial jails.This article […]

Scientists who use AI tools are publishing more papers than ever before

Science is entering a massive publishing boom, in large part due to artificial intelligence. New research published in the journal Science has revealed that scientists who use large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are producing […]

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil unrest—but internet access adds the crucial spark

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent weeks, the richest 10% of the global population now receive 53% of all income and […]

Saturday Citations: Self-repairing quantum computer; AI carbon footprint; active listening forges bonds

In the best possible news for people who like pizza, researchers report that high-fat cheese may protect brain health and reduce dementia risk. Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could explain why some people live 100 years or […]