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Social Sciences Apr 17, 2024

Study examines influence of social media on televised debate viewing

Anyone who regularly watches news or sports has likely noticed the steady creep of content competing for screen space, whether it be stock market prices, social media posts, game scores or some other graphic display. Previous ...

Economics & Business Jun 30, 2023

Opinion: UK energy bills are finally about to go down. Here's why

For the first time since autumn 2022, your energy bill will soon be capped by the UK regulator Ofgem rather than the government's emergency price guarantee. This means you should see a drop in your next bill.

Economics & Business Jun 1, 2023

Why allowing more migrants into the US could boost the economy

An immigration policy that would allow more migrants to legally enter and work in the country could benefit the overall U.S. economy, Northeastern experts say.

Mathematics Apr 3, 2023

Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness

When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math.

Astrobiology Dec 21, 2022

We could spread life to the Milky Way with comets. But should we?

Here's a thorny problem: What if life doesn't always appear on planets that can support it? What if we find more and more exoplanets and determine that some of them are habitable? What if we also determine that life hasn't ...

Economics & Business Jul 5, 2022

Automated hiring systems could be making the worker shortage worse

There's a worker shortage in the United States. As the country recovers from the pandemic, companies are trying to bring their employees back into the workplace but are finding that many of those employees are quitting—a ...

Education Feb 17, 2022

Views on globalisation shaped less by education than we tend to think

Globalization is a divisive issue in Western European societies, hotly disputed between people who are open to blurring the boundaries between nations and people who are resistant to doing so for fear of losing their culture ...

Social Sciences May 4, 2021

Polarization and mobilization on social media affect infection figures

Measures to contain the Corona pandemic are the subject of politically charged debate and tend to polarize segments of the population. Those who support the measures motivate their acquaintances to follow the rules, while ...

Internet Apr 15, 2019

Europe looks to remold internet with new copyright rules

The European Union has approved a copyright overhaul that aims to give more protection to artists and news organizations but which critics say will stifle freedom of speech and online creativity and punish smaller web companies.

Social Sciences Jan 24, 2019

Why the Internet hasn't killed off books

We stand amazed by the vitality of printed books, a more than 500-year-old technique, both on and offline. We have observed over the years all of the dialogue which books have created around themselves, through 150 interviews ...

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