At first glance, helping those on the other side of a conflict seems like an act of compassion and progress. Yet new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even seemingly well-intentioned initiatives […]
When police raided a newspaper in the small town of Marion in 2023, they made international headlines as computers and phones were seized in an apparent attack on press freedom. New research from the University […]
Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns thought to hold across all languages—are statistically supported […]
Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future because the U.K. now has a multiparty system with majoritarian voting rules, warns a new study published in Parliamentary Affairs.This article is brought […]
Public opinion polls and other surveys rely on data to understand human behavior. New research from Dartmouth reveals that artificial intelligence can now corrupt public opinion surveys at scale—passing every quality check, mimicking real humans, […]
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Debates about generative artificial intelligence on college campuses have largely centered on student cheating. But focusing on cheating overlooks a larger set of ethical concerns that higher education institutions face, from the use of copyrighted […]
Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.
Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people—perhaps a surprising number—look to the sky and see government plots and […]
Shannon McCoole ran one of the world’s largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing children […]
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