Mass Media

Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b01279 Old books give off a complex mélange of odors, ranging from pleasant (almonds, caramel and chocolate) to nasty (formaldehyde, old clothes and trash). Detecting…

A new study finds that there is not enough information to support the claim that violent video games lead to acts of violence. The Contemporary Economic Policy study examined data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to…

AUSTIN, Texas -- With the presidential election season moving into high gear, campaign messaging will soon begin increasing dramatically. But for those of us who get our news from social media, a new study from the McCombs School of…

Credit: Zhang et al. 2019 Basketball season kicked off last month and with it comes the return of the most enduring of fan traditions: trash talk. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have taken a deeper look…

Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03205 In the 1960s, a French artist named Jean-Pierre Sudre began experimenting with an obscure 19th-century photographic process, creating dramatic…

A new 3D process which involves old aerial photos and modern-day drone photography has shed light on accelerated ice loss from some of Iceland's largest glaciers.Credit: 3D composite of aerial photography from the National Land Survey of…

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Political disinformation campaigns on social media threaten to sway political outcomes, from U.S. elections to Hong Kong protests, yet are often hard to detect. A new study,…

University of California, Santa Cruz trains the next generation of science journalists with support from the Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeCredit: Photo by Lisa Strong Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a $195,500 grant…

An article published in the journal Information, Communication & Society by Fernanda Pires, Carlos A. Scolari and Maria-José Masanet,examines teenagers' use of YouTube and the metaphors that arise when putting these uses into…

Stanford research shows how uncertainty in scientific predictions can help and harm credibility The more specific climate scientists are about the uncertainties of global warming, the more the American public trusts their predictions,…