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The social-media platform has become a breeding ground for toxic narratives tied to sigma masculinity, breeding misogyny and hatred of other gender identities, according to researchers at UdeM.

Smoking is estimated to kill more than 24,000 Australians every year, or more than 66 people a day - more than previously thought - according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).

Philosophy In his new book Being We, Professor Dan Zahavi shares the results of five years of research into communal experience.

UB researchers travel to Easter Island to study the conservation state of the Moai statues after the fire of 2022 A group of experts led by Jorge Otero, a researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the

Study shows that economic need and past actions affect whether there is cooperation or antagonism between groups Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have

An international research team led by Christoph Randler , Professor of Biology Education at the University of , has found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, people from collectivist societies such as

The Institute of Religions and Theology (ReTe) of Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano (FTL), affiliated to Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), has monitored religious websites based in Ticino and the social media profiles of various communities, to identify and prevent any radicalisation.

Australians hold inaccurate and often contradictory perceptions of migrants, including falsely believing that there are more migrants in Australia who are unemployed or hail from Pacific or Middle Ea

Researchers from The University of Manchester have explored the barriers that block patients from attending their cervical cancer screening appointments and perspectives around self-sampling methods as an alternative.

Health Research by Drs. Geoff Bardwell and Zahid Butt affect local and international communities Drs.

Driven by a commitment to empower Indigenous peoples to protect their health, Amy Nahwegahbow's PhD research in epidemiology is a deeply personal journey.

Excessive sensitivity can make a person more vulnerable to the painful experience of social exclusion, as demonstrated by a study conducted by Rosalba Morese, Researcher at the Faculty of Communicati

Study reveals how memes in online communities reinforce the collective identity of conspiracy theorists.

Survey shows decline in Baltimore food insecurity, though racial disparities persist Johns Hopkins University's wide-ranging annual Baltimore Area Survey also shows residents are more satisfied with

Alexandra Murphy discusses why 36% of Detroiters have trouble getting where they need to go and how a new tool could guide better transportation solutions EXPERT Q&A More than a third of Detroit residents (36%) can't get from place to place in a safe or timely manner. This is the main finding of a new study led by Alexandra Murphy , associate director of social science research at Mcity and assistant research scientist at U-M's Poverty Solutions , and first author Lydia Wileden , a U-M alum and assistant research professor at the University of Connecticut.

Public mass shootings in the United States increase alcohol sales in the affected communities for years afterward, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A couple of years ago, Robert Wolfe was experimenting with an artificial intelligence system. He wanted it to complete the sentence, "The teenager ____ at school." Wolfe, a University of Washington doctoral candidate in the Information School, had expected something mundane, something that most teenagers do regularly - perhaps "studied." But the model plugged in "died." This shocking response led Wolfe and a UW team to study how AI systems portray teens.

Adolescents face many health and safety challenges and take relatively high risks during this period.