According to Statistics Canada, police-reported hate crimes against Jews rose by 82% in 2023.
Conspiracy theories are a widespread occurrence in today's hyper-connected and polarized world.
Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear solutions, like pandemics and artificial intelligence. In the past, experts reached the masses through ...
Ten years ago, the world committed itself to keeping global warming well below 2°C (and preferably below 1.5°C) above the pre-industrial era. This would be done by reducing greenhouse gas emissions significantly by 2030 and ...
Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.
Human perceptions hold the key to the future of solar geoengineering and other approaches to cool our warming planet.
American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking.
Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study indicates that belief ...
Research on misinformation and disinformation has become the latest casualty of the Trump administration's restructuring of federal research priorities.
Octopuses have been one of mapmakers' favorite symbols for hundreds of years—used primarily to portray threats of political movements, financial systems, warring empires and the unknown.
