Society

After many years of partisan politics, increasingly divisive language, finger-pointing and inflammatory speech have contributed to an environment of fear and uncertainty, affecting not just political dynamics but also the priorities and perceptions of young […]

Have you ever wondered how Australia’s many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go?This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

A research team explored the conditions under which people would accept the moral judgments of AI. They focused on the behavior of “not helping people with bad reputations (justified non-cooperation),” which is difficult for people […]

A study led by the University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health highlights the need for improved wildfire preparedness tailored to disadvantaged communities in unincorporated areas of the Eastern […]

In a new linguistic analysis, reviews of movies with female-dominated casts were found to have significantly higher levels of sexism than reviews of movies with male-dominated casts. Researchers Jad Doughman and Wael Khreich of the […]

Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published in the Journal of […]

Cecilia lives in Carahatas, a coastal village in Cuba threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change. Experts predict that part of the village could be under water within 50 years. Government authorities have […]

You wake up at 7:00 and reflexively reach for your phone. Between the stream of emails, WhatsApps and breaking news alerts, you see a worrying reminder: you averaged 11 hours of daily screen time last […]

Many factors are needed to achieve our goals. Now researchers have looked at passion, drive and people’s ability to find flow.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly described as looking like a U-shaped curve: The joys of youth are followed by the challenges of our 20s and 30s before an upswing later in life that […]