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Legal scholar Josef Drexl calls for a new remuneration model to protect against AI displacement The value of human creativity: Josef Drexl, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Com

Black women in the UK are entering menopause severely under informed, under supported, and often dismissed by healthcare professionals, according to new research from the UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health. Published in the journal Post Reproductive Health , researchers say the study highlights urgent gaps in menopause education and calls for culturally competent care to address longstanding health inequalities.

There is much debate about the role of social media in young people's lives. But what do adolescents themselves think about it? In any case, they feel they are not being listened to enough, according to a new study by Radboud University.

Long absent from Belgian literary accounts, Junia Letty studied at ULB, was published at an early age and moved in European intellectual circles at the end of the 19th century.

EPFL professor Robert West and invited professor Ágnes Horvát discuss how the rise of AI is transforming the dissemination and production of scientific knowledge.

After death, our digital lives persist. Digital remains raise complex questions surrounding the ownership, privacy and dignity of people after death.

Girls between the ages of 13 and 19 are widely exposed to beauty content online that promotes products unsuitable for young skin - even when they are not actively seeking beauty-related information.

Science is not an isolated pursuit. It underpins human progress, generating knowledge, improving lives, and connecting communities across borders. Yet knowledge alone is not enough. For research to have a global impact, it must be understood and made accessible to the public.

An international project investigating the form, content and consequences of online conspiracy theories has found that in German-speaking countries, such theories often originate locally and have come

Field experiment on Reddit examines what distinguishes passive from active users and tests interventions designed to get more people to join the conversation  At a glance: Online discourse is driven

Large Language Models change their judgment depending on who they think wrote a text, even when the content stays identical.

Fewer and fewer people in Switzerland are consuming journalistic news media. They know less about current events, have less trust in politics and feel less connected to democratic society, according to the Yearbook Quality of the Media 2025 from the Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) at the University of Zurich.

A study by Universitat de València Full-Time University Professor in Journalism Carolina Moreno-Castro that was published on the Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico scietific paper analyses how journalists covered the València DANA clearly, rapidly, abundantly and objectively.

New Book: Gottfried Benn's Correspondence with his Daughter The Würzburg literary scholars Professor Stephan Kraft and Holger Hof have already jointly published two of Gottfried Benn's correspondences.

A vast majority of media professionals in Switzerland use AI tools in their day-to-day work but do so mostly to support their tasks rather than produce content, according to a study by the University of Zurich. They are rather ambivalent in their assessment of the impact of AI tools on media quality, and they are in favor of introducing industry-wide standards and strengthening cooperation in the area of IT infrastructure to reduce the sector's dependency on tech platforms.

The majority of the Swiss public supports scientific research and condemns attacks on science, according to the 2025 Science Barometer survey conducted by the University of Zurich.

Conspiracy theories and incitement to harassment and violence abound on mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content 'from outgroup hate to ingroup love'.

The JAMESfocus Report 2025 by the ZHAW and Swisscom clearly shows that entertainment and information motives outweigh self-expression motives when it comes to the use of social networks among Swiss young people aged between 12 and 19.

Digital habits What lies behind our dissatisfaction with our screen use - and why does the dissatisfaction rarely lead to action? A new Danish study sheds light on this.

Researchers from the SmartVote project, in which Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) participates, have carried out a study that analyses the impact of digital disinformation in electoral processes in both Spain and Portugal.

A pilot study encouraging children to record their daily journeys to school to improve road safety is soon to be expanded to further primary schools across Dublin. Pupils at Harold's Cross Educate Together NS are using GoPro cameras as part of a new citizen science project aimed at highlighting dangerous conditions for young pedestrians and cyclists.

Online news headlines have become longer and more negative. They tend to use clickbait style to attract attention. This development can be observed across news outlets, regardless of journalistic quality. Potential reasons include the sinking production costs of online publications, a general change in style, or the more competitive online environment.