The world is at a "tipping point" in its commitment to take action, says an expert on the impact of climate change on human health, as leaders from 195 countries gather at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2022
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My colleagues and I used artificial intelligence to analyze hundreds of thousands of dialogs on cable news programs in order to better understand the nature of interruptions in political discussions. We found that women get ...
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Deep within the Sierra Nevada mountains, Greenville is a small town of about 1,100 people in the northern part of Plumas County, California. It was founded in the era of the Gold Rush—a mining settlement turned logging ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2022
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Not long ago, the idea of photographing a black hole was as quixotic as photographing a unicorn. Now, scientists have not one but two images of two different supermassive black holes—and they both look as magical as flaming ...
Astronomy
Jun 1, 2022
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Ever since the earliest days of the internet in the 1980s, getting online has meant getting involved in a community. Initially, there were dial-up chat servers, email lists and text-based discussion groups focused on specific ...
Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2022
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Researchers from the Department of Computer Science in Aalto University and University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences joined their forces in the ELEBOT-2021 project. They analyzed a large set of social media data ...
Political science
Oct 13, 2021
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A new study found more U.S. high school students felt respected in a political discussion designed as a deliberation—where the goal was to reach consensus—than in a group debate, and their views also moved closer toward ...
Education
Jul 27, 2021
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Sharing ideas in an online learning environment has a distinct advantage over sharing personal details in driving learner engagement in massive open online courses, more commonly known as MOOCs, says new research co-written ...
Education
Jul 14, 2021
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A new study offers a rare look at how black and white people listen to each other during political discussions, including those that touch on controversial issues about race.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2020
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Summer in Australia is getting hotter. Extreme heat events, with daytime temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius, are becoming more common and we are getting more of these days in a row.
Environment
Jan 29, 2020
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