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'X-odus' creates growing challenges for brand marketing

Call it an X-odus: In the week following the election, more than 1 million mostly left-leaning people joined Bluesky, a social media network founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Meta's Threads also has reported growth ...

BeReal: The attention war on social media

During a vocational training class one morning, the teacher was discussing the possible solutions to a problem with her students when a notification signal suddenly rang out from a mobile phone. A student took his device ...

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Decentralized social media 'increases citizen empowerment,' says study
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We knew offshore detention was bad for mental health of those seeking asylum—our research shows exactly how bad
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Study links abortion access to women's economic outcomes
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Dehumanizing child-free women in film and TV gives misogyny a stage
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Canada's immigration strategy: How reduced targets can preserve positive attitudes
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People with fewer resources seen as less trustworthy across cultures, research shows
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Financial anxiety leads to unnecessary Christmas shopping, say researchers
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Research shows gender, nationality enhance rivalry perceptions
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Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers
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Research shows stress about personal finances may make leaders abusive in workplace
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African voices in ink: Researcher uncovers letters from Igbo people
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What Strictly Come Dancing can teach us about how (and how not) to give feedback
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Great Britain lags behind Europe on restricting gambling marketing, new research shows
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Researcher: The just energy transition ignores labor outside the formal economy. So is it just?
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Respecting children's philosophical wisdom
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In your face: our acceptance of facial recognition technology depends on who is doing it—and where
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Kindness in academic workplaces tied to stronger institutional identity and well-being
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Systematic study of policy experiences can increase public support for new policies
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Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
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How prisons fall short in protecting the incarcerated from climate disasters

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Quantum computing researchers develop an 8-photon qubit chip
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White smokers on the lake floor: Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea
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Living microbes discovered in Earth's driest desert with new separation technique
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Climate impact of carbon crediting projects is substantially overestimated, analysis shows
Astronomy
Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
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Altering two genes to produce sweeter tomatoes without sacrificing size, weight or yield
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Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow
Astronomy
Astronomers inspect the nature of an X-ray binary with a red supergiant
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Chlorine mixed with cocoa butter could protect corals from disease and reduce antibiotic pollution
Cell & Microbiology
For the first time, scientists film 'giant' Mimivirus in action
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Ligand engineering method streamlines design for chemical reactions in catalysis and drug delivery
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New tool allows researchers to study gene mutation directly within living human cells
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How conflicting memories of sex and starvation compete to drive behavior
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Scientists find a new way of entangling light and sound
Condensed Matter
Physicists identify key mechanism behind chiral charge density wave in TiSe₂
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Mapping changes in the ionosphere with smartphones
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How soccer could address prison re-offending

Soccer may help incarcerated people to improve their in-prison behavior and reintegration into society after release, by fostering connections to positive group identities through learning coaching and transferrable skills ...