New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map ...
Mathematics
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As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world's oldest living culture, humanity's newest technology has yet to reckon with a simple principle: "nothing about us, without us." The concern is that artificial ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2026
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Gentle purchase incentives can lead customers to choose groceries with higher animal husbandry standards more often. A recent study at the University of Bonn at least suggests this. The researchers used two different animal ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2026
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Most of us have attended sex ed classes in school. If we're lucky, we'll learn about consent and how to roll a condom onto a banana. But the classroom rarely goes into the specifics of sexual health and well-being—including ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2026
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Domestic and family violence (DFV) rates in the Indo-Pacific are among the highest globally, but there is a lack of focus, both in research and policy, on the issue across the region. In the first analysis of its kind centered ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2026
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Imagine opening a difficult book in a quiet room. The first page is dense. You read one paragraph, then reread it. Nothing "clicks" yet. Your brain is doing what learning often requires: spending effort before the reward ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2026
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Relationships are all about compromise. From deciding on where to eat dinner with a friend to negotiating chore lists at home, we often experience situations that require some flexibility. But what happens when we must work ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2026
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During adolescence, young people become especially sensitive to peer influence—more so than at any other time in life. So how does this affect their mental health?
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2026
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The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace. That mismatch may help explain some of the ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2026
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Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music.
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2026
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