See also stories tagged with News

Search results for news

Social Sciences Feb 5, 2025

Why Democrats are switching off the news: A psychologist explains

Many Democrats appear to be switching off mainstream news channels and other media, following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Social Sciences Jan 15, 2025

Universities are mapping where local news outlets are still thriving, and where gaps persist

Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state's news and information ecosystems.

Plants & Animals Jan 15, 2025

Study shows hot leaves can't catch carbon from the air. It's bad news for rainforests—and Earth

On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees forms an almost impenetrable mass of green.

Social Sciences Jan 7, 2025

Emotional news alters men's financial risk-taking, research shows

Emotional news stories have a strong impact on men's financial decisions, according to new research.

Social Sciences Jan 6, 2025

Mainstream media faces a credibility crisis—research shows how the news can still serve the public

"The news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process," the polling firm Gallup concluded in a 2024 analysis.

Other Dec 21, 2024

Saturday Citations: Chicxulub meteorite found guilty; Good news and bad news for LLMs

It's the last week before Christmas and not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse model bred to exhibit characteristics of ADHD for in vivo studies of central nervous system stimulants. This week, we reported on the discovery ...

Economics & Business Dec 17, 2024

Is news bias fueled by journalists or readers' demands? An economist weighs in

Late in December 2023, the former top editor of the New York Times' editorial page, James Bennet, dropped a bombshell in an article for The Economist. "The leadership of the New York Times is losing control of its principles," ...

Plants & Animals Dec 10, 2024

Baobab is a superfood with growing global demand—that's bad news for the sacred African tree

Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global demand for baobab products has surged in recent years, driven ...

Social Sciences Dec 9, 2024

Study finds readers trust news less when AI is involved, even when they don't understand to what extent

As artificial intelligence becomes more involved in journalism, journalists and editors are grappling not only with how to use the technology, but how to disclose its use to readers. New research from the University of Kansas ...

Political science Dec 3, 2024

Are US 'news deserts' hothouses of corruption? Researchers demonstrate impacts of losing local papers

The March 24, 2021 edition of neighborhood newspaper Northeast News, out of Kansas City, Missouri, contained a surprise for its 9,000 subscribers. Where the front-page news should have been, there was a big, blank white space. ...

page 38 from 40