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The Misinformation Susceptibility Test ‘Very Online’ Gen Z And Millennials Are Most Vulnerable To Fake News

New 2-minute test launched; developed using ChatGPT technology and validated by a series of experiments involving thousands of participants.

Social Media Experiment Reveals Potential To 'Inoculate' Millions Of Users Against Misinformation

Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to “inoculate” people against harmful content on social media when deployed in YouTube’s advert slot, according to a major online experiment led by the University of Cambridge.

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Climate Endgame: Potential For Global Heating To End Humanity 'Dangerously Underexplored'

Experts call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ research agenda, and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might pose a catastrophic risk to society and humanity.

Climate Endgame: Potential for global heating to end humanity 'dangerously underexplored'

Experts call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ research agenda, and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might pose a catastrophic risk to society and humanity.

Tuning Into Brainwave Rhythms Speeds Up Learning In Adults

The first study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn.

First Australians Ate Giant Eggs Of Huge Flightless Birds, Ancient Proteins Confirm

Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.

Insulation Only Provides Short-Term Reduction In Household Gas Consumption, Study Of UK Housing Suggests

First study to look at long-term effect of insulation finds fall in gas consumption per household was small, with all energy savings disappearing by the fourth year after a retrofit.

Men May Not ‘Perceive’ Domestic Tasks As Needing Doing In The Same Way As Women, Philosophers Argue

By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why women still shoulder most housework, and why men never seem to notice.

Paying Farmers To Create Woodland And Wetland Is The Most Cost-Effective Way To Hit UK Environment Targets

Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive farmland, if biodiversity and carbon targets are to be met.

Feeling Poorer Than Your Friends In Early Adolescence Is Associated With Worse Mental Health

How rich or poor young people think they are compared to their friendship group is linked to wellbeing and even bullying during the shift between childhood and teenage years.

Risk of Volcano Catastrophe ‘A Roll of the Dice’, Say Experts

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the far more likely threat of a large volcanic eruption is close to ignored – despite much that could be done to reduce the risks, say researchers.

Floating ‘Artificial Leaves’ Ride the Wave of Clean Fuel Production

Researchers have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could eventually operate on a large scale at sea.

Risk of Volcano Catastrophe ‘A Roll of the Dice’, Say Experts

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the far more likely threat of a large volcanic eruption is close to ignored – despite much that could be done to reduce the risks, say researchers.