Why Cancer Patients Fall for Online Misinformation: New Interview Study Reveals the Triggers
A qualitative interview study of cancer patients and caregivers in Saudi Arabia reveals that superficial search habits, trust in peer ...
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Why We Trust Unreliable Sources: The Brain Distorts Stated Reliability When Deciding
A new PLOS Computational Biology study shows that people distort explicit reliability labels when making decisions, letting even sources flagged ...
Swiss Schools Get Their Own Seismometers to Shake Up Earthquake Awareness
A nationwide Swiss programme has installed 46 low-cost seismometers in secondary schools and published multilingual teaching modules to raise earthquake ...
Attention-Based AI Reads News Word by Word to Catch Multilingual Fake Stories
Researchers have built a hierarchical attention network that detects fake news in English, Hindi, and Marathi, reaching 98.9 percent accuracy ...
When the Firehose Runs Dry: Crisis Researchers Scramble to Replace Twitter Data
Restricted and costly access to Twitter/X data, combined with GDPR constraints, is pushing crisis management researchers toward multi-source monitoring frameworks ...
When Misinformation Meets Motherhood: How Uganda’s Pandemic Health Messages Faltered
A qualitative study of 136 Ugandans reveals how COVID-19 misinformation and limited digital literacy disrupted maternal and HIV care, and ...
Social Media Emerges as Critical Health Infrastructure for Mass Gathering Events
A systematic review of ten high-quality studies finds that social media now functions as core operational infrastructure for mass gathering ...
Why Climate Belief Interventions Keep Falling Short: A Rigorous New Review
A systematic review of twelve randomized controlled trials finds no clearly superior intervention for changing climate change beliefs and flags ...
AI Scores Health Videos on Douyin Nearly as Well as Human Experts, Study Finds
Chinese researchers show that a ChatGPT-4-based framework can assess the quality of lactational mastitis videos on Douyin with near-perfect agreement ...
Global Commission of 30 Experts Launches Bid to Rebuild Public Trust in Science
The World Health Summit Academic Alliance and The Lancet have launched a 30-member commission spanning 22 countries to strengthen academic ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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