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Social Sciences Jun 10, 2025

Adorable animal content truly makes the internet more positive, study shows

Social media gets a lot of criticism over its platforming of toxic, divisive or polarizing content. But if you took away the awful material, much of what's left would be unimaginably cute: clumsy puppies, fuzzy kittens, roly-poly ...

Political science May 21, 2025

Take It Down Act marks a key 'inflection point' in US internet regulation, expert says

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, making it a federal crime to publish AI-generated deep fakes and non-consensual intimate imagery.

Plants & Animals Apr 11, 2025

'Internet of nature' helps researchers explore the web of life

A novel paper led by Dr. Ulrich Brose of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is widening the understanding of how species interact within ecosystems via ...

Social Sciences Apr 7, 2025

What our reaction to 'Adolescence' tells us about our fear of boys, sex and the internet

News feeds have been flooded with reactions to "Adolescence," Netflix's newest viral hit. Released in March, the limited series racked up over 66 million views in just two weeks, making it the platform's most-watched limited ...

Education Apr 4, 2025

Access to reliable internet and digital devices tied to college graduation rates during COVID-19

Digital inequality—challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices—affected on-time graduation for U.S. college students over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according ...

Social Sciences Apr 2, 2025

'Adolescence' on Netflix: A painful wake-up call about unregulated internet use for teens

In the Netflix series "Adolescence," we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the first episode. The tension from seeing a helpless 13-year-old boy escorted to a police station and interrogated ...

Earth Sciences Mar 27, 2025

Not just the Internet: Foresight uses fiber optics to detect structural damage after earthquakes

A new method based on optical interferometry, to monitor structural damage to buildings hit by earthquakes in real time, is the outcome of the Foresight research project, led by the Politecnico di Milano and carried out together ...

Social Sciences Mar 27, 2025

Kids and the internet: How our new tool assesses children's 'digital maturity'

Technology is so ingrained in our lives that most children today are "digital natives." Indeed, they might "speak" digital before they even learn a language, and digital natives are often asked to educate older "digital immigrants," ...

Ecology Mar 19, 2025

An 'Internet of Animals': How marine life can help solve ocean issues

Sensors attached to animals gather valuable data to track and mitigate the human influence on marine life. A Kobe University review paper emphasizes the importance of integrating data from various sources and advocates for ...

Quantum Physics Mar 12, 2025

First operating system for quantum networks paves the way for practical internet applications

Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) researchers at TU Delft, QuTech, University of Innsbruck, INRIA and CNRS recently announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research, ...

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