The concept of "stranded assets" originated in 1980s utility deregulation debates as justification for compensating investors harmed by policy changes—a precedent now problematically mirrored in fossil fuel compensation claims. ⚡📜🌍

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Mainstream parties shift toward Euroscepticism when radical-right parties gain support and secure parliamentary seats, regardless of whether gains are actual or predicted. 🗳️ 🇪🇺 📊

What people blame for job losses—immigrants, robots, or outsourcing—shapes which government policies they support, aligning with whether they see the threat as cultural or economic. 🤖🇦🇹📊

A distant starburst galaxy with a supermassive black hole shows extreme dust and low metal content, revealing early black hole growth in primitive galaxies. 🌌⚫✨

Firms rewired supply links during COVID-19, making hub companies more critical while overall network resilience improved through adaptive behavior. 🏭🔗📈

SynCraft combines synthetic route planning with drug safety evaluation in one tool, automatically warning about potentially hazardous intermediates during molecular design. 🧪🔄⚠️

Women's support for welfare states is strongest in high-income households where men earn significantly more, revealing how gender and income inequality shape political attitudes differently across society. 👩‍⚖️💰📊

An AI system uses machine learning to automatically customize online learning paths based on student progress, emotions, and performance data in real time. 🤖📚😊

In societies with high inequality, class-based network segregation matters less for shaping how people view wealth redistribution. 🌐💰📊

Cheaper travel to Washington D.C. enabled the federal government to expand and replace personal connections with formal bureaucracy throughout the nineteenth century. 🚂🏛️📊

DECODE enables autonomous vehicles to continuously learn new driving scenarios by balancing specialized and generalized motion prediction models without catastrophic forgetting. 🚗🧠📚

Citizens like political parties less when they perceive them as ideologically inconsistent, independent of policy disagreement. 🗳️ 🤔 📉

A new decentralized learning method uses mathematical acceleration techniques to overcome slow training caused by uneven data distribution across clients. 🚀📊🔗

Elite emotional polarization makes political parties less likely to form governing coalitions, even when ideology alone wouldn't prevent cooperation. 🤝💔🏛️

When mainstream parties adopt far-right prejudiced rhetoric, their greater legitimacy makes them more effective at weakening society's anti-prejudice norms. 🏛️📢🌍

Correcting misconceptions about immigrant populations has minimal effect on people's attitudes toward migrants, with some negative reactions. 📊🧑‍🤝‍🧑🚫

Most educational inequality stems from genetics before school starts, but new genetic differences in learning speed create additional inequality during primary education despite some compensation. 📚🧬📊

Experiencing workplace injustice—unfair pay, promotion practices, and management—erodes people's belief in meritocracy and strengthens support for government intervention on inequality. 💼⚖️🗳️

Migrants who move as adults accept more inequality and support need-based redistribution less than non-migrants, while childhood migrants hold similar views. 🌍✊📊

When data comes from unidentifiable parameters, Bayesian approximation methods concentrate on correct equivalence classes without needing summary statistics. 🎯📊🔍

Strong belief in democratic institutions helps voters resist supporting antidemocratic candidates, even when their political preferences conflict. 🗳️🛡️📊

Western European party systems are fragmenting more dramatically than previously recognized, with voters increasingly supporting different parties in regional versus national elections. 🗳️🗺️🔄

Reducing hostility between rival supporters improves social relations and democratic support, but effects vary significantly across countries. 🗳️🤝🌍

Citizens value having equal political influence on government, even when they get policies they want through coincidental agreement with the wealthy. 🗳️📊😔

Most voters support barring radical parties from government, though left-leaning voters more often oppose such exclusions than right-leaning ones. 🚫🏛️⚖️

Climate warming creates sudden thermal shocks in rivers, fragmenting freshwater fish habitats and dramatically increasing extinction risks globally. 🌡️🐟💔

Researchers measured public political discontent across 136 countries over 56 years, finding it has risen steadily in wealthy democracies mainly due to economic hardship. 📊🌍😤

Liquid-solid friction generators efficiently convert ocean waves and droplets into electricity while detecting water properties for sensing applications. 💧⚡🌊

People in autocracies consume news primarily to maintain social connections and community belonging, not just to gather practical information. 📰🤝🇧🇾

Opposing narratives in online videos create polarization, but audience comments surprisingly converge around shared story structures despite partisan divides. 🎬📖🌐

Victim testimonies from mothers can reduce public support for police violence even among right-wing voters by increasing empathy and countering victim-blaming narratives. 👮‍♀️💔🗣️

Not all unpolarized citizens are alike—some feel lukewarm toward parties while others feel cold, with different effects on democratic participation. 🗳️❄️😐

Far-right voters resent undeserving winners gaining status, while progressive voters focus on unjustly disadvantaged groups, driving electoral realignment. 🗳️📊😠

The most-saved research articles trending on SciLove, over the last 30 days.

Radical parties, not populism itself, drive protest mobilization by European MPs on social media. 🗳️📱✊

Language AI tools can effectively classify how people across different countries understand democracy from survey responses. 🤖🗳️🌍

People misjudge which climate actions matter most due to mental shortcuts and biases, and simple corrections only partially help—tailored approaches are needed. 🌍💭🔧

Voters care most about high turnout and fair representation of women and minorities, not institutional details like ballot systems or proportionality. 🗳️👥⚖️

Elections boost overall trust in institutions, but winners gain more than losers lose—especially populist party supporters. 🗳️📊💔

Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right

The political right's shift toward authoritarianism and norm-breaking better explains democratic crisis than the "polarization" concept, which wrongly assumes symmetry between parties. 🏛️⚠️📉

Kidney salt channels require a specific phosphorylation step to bind a scaffolding protein that keeps them functional and maintains proper blood pressure. 🧂💊❤️