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Oil spill impact assessment has evolved from physics-based trajectory modeling toward multidisciplinary frameworks that ...

Research suggests that the political toxicity many users encounter on social media is a design choice that can be reversed ...

A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed—without removing political posts and without the direct cooperation of the platform.

Humans bring gender biases to their interactions with Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to new research from Trinity College Dublin and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) Munich. The study ...

A look at real-life social experiments that crossed ethical lines, revealing how far researchers once went in the name of science. Venezuela mobilizes troops, weapons in response to US warship buildup ...

He was reading from the book of lurk. Texas Democrat James Talarico, a self-professed “devout Christian,” has been following prostitutes and porn stars on social media, even exchanging messages with ...

I often think of Donald Trump not as a president or even as a human being but rather as a social science experiment in how much out-in-the-open corruption the American public will tolerate before it ...

X's new "about this account" section could make it a lot easier to identify scammy accounts X has long been a hotbed for fake accounts, bots and other scammy behavior. Many of those dynamics have been ...

AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. “Competition-induced misaligned behaviors emerge even when models are explicitly instructed to remain truthful and ...