Day August 3, 2024

When do you think you’ll retire? Aged 65? Younger, if you’re lucky? Maybe older if you’re unlucky—or if you’re young right now? Someone from a high-income country starting their first job can expect to retire on average two years later…

More than 100 people have been arrested in riots following the fatal stabbing of three young girls in an attack on a dance class. Suspected supporters of the far-right English Defense League violently clashed with police officers after a peaceful…

Eighty years after his inception, Smokey the Bear continues to evoke the importance of wildfire prevention in the United States. However, another environmental mascot was introduced around the same time whose history has now been all but forgotten. Pestina, designed…

Experts disagree on the issue of age verification for social media. Credit: Pixabay/Pexels Australia is one of several countries currently considering a social media ban for children. Nationally, there are calls to raise the age a young person can legally…

Example of trials in Study 2. (A) is an example from the adult target set (left). (B) is an example from the child target set (right). This is a loose translation into English. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels New research by the UCD School of Medicine looking at the level of digital skills among children aged 10 and 11 found those with a safe and positive understanding of technology and smart devices enjoyed…

Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by Washington State University researchers. In the study, published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing…

Remote and hybrid working may be great for employees’ work-life balance, but it may be stifling innovation, according to new research. The study, led by University of Essex and University of Chicago economists, found that staff who worked in a…

Proportion of different partnerhship arrangements among people aged 43 and over and proportion of people in a LAT partnership who wish to share a household (in percent) Credit: German Centre of Gerontology Official statistics only reflect institutional partnership status, meaning…

White Western women have lower body appreciation and experience greater pressure from the media to be thin compared to Black Nigerian and Chinese women across all ages, according to new research. The study, carried out by psychologists at Durham University…

“Super straight” is a new term, coined by a TikTok user in 2021, that asserts one is “naturally” and “inherently” not attracted to transgender people. This new sexual identity attempts to distance super straights from being seen as transphobic while…

When we think of what Australian schools look like, we probably think of large grounds with single or double-story buildings. They’re usually in suburban areas on relatively flat blocks. But there are less conventional ways to build schools. Imagine your…

Memorability dilates perceived time. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01863-2 Research by George Mason professor Martin Wiener recently demonstrated that the more memorable an image is, the longer and more accurately its viewers can perceive the passage of time.…

The Canadian women’s soccer team has become the center of controversy after reports from the 2024 Paris Olympics revealed the team used a drone to observe the New Zealand soccer team’s training sessions. That has led to New Zealand’s team…

More than 50 million workers in the United States are part of the gig economy, either to supplement their main income or as their full-time job. New research by University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business professors Paul…

Tesco, Boots and Barclays have joined the growing number of companies trying to force employees back to the office after several years of remote working that began with the pandemic. They’re likely to be in for a battle. While some…

Sample trials. Credit: Paula Rubio-Fernández Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. In a study published in PNAS, researchers from Yale University and the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen show that…

Credit: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers who study belief dynamics often use analogies to understand and model the complex cognitive–social systems that underlie why we believe the things we do and how those beliefs can change over…

There are “systemic weaknesses” in the way juries make decisions—and these are likely to be contributing to the conviction of innocent people, failures to convict the guilty, and inequalities, new research warns. The current legal rules involving procedure and evidence…

A University of Bath study of 12 grassroots sports clubs in Bristol, Manchester and London has found that almost all children who attend them feel a sense of belonging and emotional connection. The new report, led by Dr. Haydn Morgan…

When a youth athlete suffers an injury in a game or practice, the decision about when they’re ready to return to their workout routine and ultimately to the field or court should be a collaborative decision between medical professionals, the…

“My kids are usually at daycare during the day but when my days run long they sometimes have to come with me for chores,” said one study participant who submitted this photo of her stroller in the barn. “I try…

Credit: Anderson Guerra from Pexels Makeup is one of the strategic tools for shaping one’s image. To what extent can its intensity and form vary depending on the occasion and context? When and why can it be used as camouflage?…

Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) and Cole Davis (Channing Tatum) in Fly Me to the Moon. Credit: Sony Pictures The new romantic comedy “Fly me to the Moon” tells the story of how, in the run up to the Apollo 11…

Most Americans are aware of fake news and misinformation. In a new study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania sought to uncover whether the threat of misinformation drives Americans to seek out news sources that reflect their own political beliefs.…

Credit: Pexels / Fauxels “Holiday” or “vacation”, “to start” or “to begin”, “my friend’s cat” or “the cat of my friend”—in our language, there are different ways of expressing the same things and concepts. But can the choice of a…

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Products and services alluding to financial mindfulness abound, but what exactly are they promising? According to new research from a Cornell professor and colleagues, financial mindfulness can be defined not just as awareness of how much…

In contrast to earlier research, new data suggests that on average 98% of Americans report having at least one friend, and 58% have five or more friends. Credit: AFP, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org) American adults may typically have more friends than…

Credit: Helena Lopes from Pexels A new paper from Carnegie Mellon University indicates that giving students more autonomy leads to better attendance and improved performance. The research was published in the journal Science Advances. In one experiment, students were given…

Eye tracking implementation diagram (adapted by Ugwitz et al., 2022). Credit: Frontiers in Education (2024). DOI: 10.3389 Eye tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a student solving a mathematical problem. Researchers at…

Research by Nottingham Trent University involved 48 female skateboarders aged 8–27, of varying ability and practicing a range of approaches and styles, from skateboarding spaces and communities in both urban and rural locations. The research, “‘Free therapy’: young woman skateboarders,…

Researchers at the University of Bath have identified signals in social media posts that can predict when someone posting on far-right forums is likely to go on to commit a terrorist act. Posts that related specifically to logistics, operational planning…

Credit: Renan Rezende from Pexels When Sky Brown won the bronze medal in women’s skateboarding at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became Great Britain’s youngest ever medalist. More young women than ever are choosing to take up the sport, but…

We study whether interacting with fringe users (red) causes non-fringe users (blue) to join fringe communities. We match users that involuntarily received comments from fringe users (blue; “treatment”) with users who did not, but had similar chances to do so…