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Research reveals how human bias shapes social media feeds
People are naturally attracted to excitement. According to new Virginia Tech research, the same is true on social media, where feeds are overrun with internatio...
Study could help event organizers prevent crowd crushes and stampedes
McGill researchers have found that dangerous crowd conditions leading to surges and stampedes may not emerge suddenly but instead develop gradually, as repeated...
Rare sighting reveals Arctic bobtail squid and egg masses in subzero Greenland fjord
Marine biologists have observed the Arctic bobtail squid in its natural habitat in the North Atlantic Ocean for the first time, including the rare discovery of...
Microplastic tire pollution found in Brisbane balcony dust
Tire particles and potentially toxic tire chemical additives have been found in dust collected from Brisbane residential balconies. University of Queensland res...
Shroud of Turin DNA sheds light on its biological history
New research has uncovered the complex biological history preserved within DNA traces found on the Shroud of Turin, offering fresh insights into one of the worl...
Understanding how wild plants handle shifting disease threats, conditions
St. Louis is a plant science powerhouse, but outside the neatly tended rows of crops and gleaming greenhouses sits another treasure trove of biological data: Th...
AI falls short on context and cultural rhetoric in United Nations speech translations
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in translation, questions have been raised about whether it could eventually replace professiona...
Exploring the use of accounts to manage reluctant participation in microteaching sessions
Classrooms often fall silent when the teacher poses a question. The pause is not always due to a lack of knowledge. Students may be hesitant, unsure, shy or sim...
Researchers challenge evidence behind high-profile parental alienation study
Researchers from Manchester and Canada have shown that the claim by the authors of a study published earlier this year that most of its participants had experie...
Red tape and conflicting priorities limit the impact of social businesses, research finds
Social businesses are being prevented from delivering lasting benefits to their regions because of complex policies, unclear guidance, financial constraints and...
Bee brains reveal how colonies divide work without central planning
What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the universities in Cologne and Frankfu...
Food labeling combined with higher prices for carbon-intensive foods could help reduce UK greenhouse gases by 5%
Economists say labeling supermarket food to show its environmental impact, combined with taxing the most carbon-intensive items, could slash UK greenhouse gas e...