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Young woman listening with headphones (Hernán Piñera/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic via Flickr)

People Trust Audio/Video Material With High Sound Quality

April 19, 2018

When watching or listening to news or information reports, a new study published in Science Communication finds audio quality plays an important role in whether the listener will believe the speaker and trust the source of the material. The study authors are Eryn Newman from UCLA and the Australian National University and Norbert Schwarz from […]

Fake News Graffiti, Friargate Railway Station, Derby, UK (Eamon Curry via Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)

Study: Lies Spread Quicker and Farther Than Truth

March 12, 2018

Over the years the Internet and social media have proved themselves valuable resources for our daily lives. In tandem, the two have provided us with an invaluable means of communication, allowing us to gather and share a wide range of information. But the Internet along with social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, have also […]

New Ebola Drugs Possible; New Weather Satellite; Bacteria or Virus?

January 22, 2016

Ebola Antibodies Could Lead to Effective Vaccines and Therapies According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 2014 West African Ebola Epidemic killed 11,316 people with about 28,638 suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of the deadly disease. The worst outbreak of Ebola in history prompted researchers from around the world to work on developing ways […]

Nobel physics laureate Gerard 't Hooft, of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, confers with Stephen Hawking after the Cambridge professor presented his solution to the information loss paradox. Hawking is in town for a weeklong conference on the information loss paradox, which is co-hosted by Nordita at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (Håkan Lindgren/KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Stephen Hawking: There May Be a Way Out of a Black Hole

August 26, 2015

Yesterday, renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, speaking to attendees of a conference being held at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, proposed a new idea that addresses a forty-year old cosmological mystery called the Black Hole Information Paradox. Simply put, the basis for the paradox is the conflict between quantum mechanics and the theory […]

What They Say, and What You Hear, Can Differ

July 17, 2012

The brain isn’t always entirely accurate when it comes to processing language, according to a new study. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) finds we may not be processing every word see hear or read. This can mean our brain doesn’t pick up on changes made to key words in a sentence, even if […]

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