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Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
Large stretches of the Arctic are carbon-rich peat bogs. As the region warms and dries, lightning strikes can spark underground fires that can burn for years.
The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of ChatGPT maker OpenAI shows that the US government is beginning to get serious about regulating AI.
While a return to the Moon will allow the U.S. to collaborate with other nations interested in space, this endeavor is also complicated by geopolitical tensions.
Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
Kids were more likely to tell an adult and less likely to touch or hold a handgun that they discovered if they’d recently watched a short video about gun safety.
AI can manipulate a real event or invent one from thin air to create a ‘situation deepfake.’ These deepfakes threaten to influence upcoming elections, but you can still protect your vote.
Research has found that race-neutral policies were not enough to achieve diversity in Brazil’s higher education system. Three scholars probe what that means for the United States.
Some people incorrectly say the Moon landings didn’t happen. But the evidence – and logic – isn’t on their side.
While UFO videos might seem compelling, they’re rarely backed up with evidence. A sociologist explains why claims of alien life gain traction through both social and mass media every few years.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
Women’s rights groups and politicians have pushed, ultimately unsuccessfully, for the Equal Rights Amendment to become part of the Constitution for the past several decades.
Russian authorities have given no legitimate justification for dropping criminal cases against rebel troops – undermining both President Vladimir Putin and the legal system.
Specific beliefs may have more to do with people’s vaccine views than their religious affiliation – but it depends on which vaccine you’re talking about.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
As temperatures rise in the US, so does the incidence of heat-related deaths, including heatstroke.
As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
At least half of surveyed US adults experienced loneliness and social isolation.
Water temperatures in the 90s off Florida in July are alarming, a NOAA coral scientist writes. Scientists in several North American countries have already spotted coral bleaching off their coasts.
When it comes to chemical weapons, American condemnation, even if hypocritical, is still valuable.
A scholar of religion who is writing a book on sacred drugs explains how today’s ‘psychedelic renaissance’ reflects a millennia-long history of using intoxicants to seek insight and connection.
With many employers switching to remote work, two engineering experts explain the feasibility of converting office buildings to residential spaces.
A former national security staffer, now a scholar of secrecy law, says criticisms of Trump’s federal indictment for hoarding classified documents are unfounded.
Donors’ sentiments expressed on Twitter became more cheerful before they made a gift to support Wikipedia, researchers found.