Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services

Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.

This is why we live in a world of conspiracism and falsehood.

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.

The question of how to define a species has a long history and continued relevance for ongoing biological and conservation research. This Review describes the history of the species problem, and explo...

Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence...

We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies

Abstract. Politically divided societies are also often divided emotionally: people like and trust those with similar political views (in-group favoritism)

Republican bigotry, tariffs and defense spending, through readers’ eyes.

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.

Network reconstruction is the task of inferring the unseen interactions between elements of a system, based only on their behaviour or dynamics. This inverse problem is in general ill-posed and admits...

At identity intersections, inequality transforms, revealing network patterns that single-dimensional models fail to explain.

Slowing change may be our last line of defense

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...

Despite its prominence in public discourse, economic growth does not translate into lasting improvements in well-being. To improve people’s lives, policymakers should shift their focus from economic g...

Human ignitions and lightning strikes both influence global fire regimes. Here the authors disaggregate the two effects in an analysis of global daily fuel moisture and flammability threshold datasets...

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