Experts Outline Plan For COVID-19 Vaccines | Lawrence Corey, John R. Mascola, Anthony S. Fauci, Francis S. Collins

A Strategic Approach To COVID-19 Vaccine R&D A public-private partnership and platform for harmonized clinical trials aims to accelerate licensure and distribution May 11, 2020 (Science) -- There is ...

How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Journalism | Patrick White

Newsrooms need to take advantage of what AI can offer and come up with a new business model. (Shutterstock) Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) May 5, 2020 (The Conversation) -- The ...

Cuddling Brings Two Minds Together, MRI Study Reveals | Dennis Thompson

Love to cuddle up? It might bring a 'mind meld,' too, new research shows. May 4, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- People in close physical contact appear to have synchronized brain patterns, a revolutionary n ...

A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli

Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...

The ‘First Scientist’s’ 800-Year-Old Tonic For What Ails Us: The Truth | Richard Gunderman

William Blake -- Visionary Heads of Friar Roger Bacon and Poet Gray May 1, 2020 (The Conversation) -- It seems that science has been taking a beating lately. From decades of denial by the tobacco ind ...

A Magic Republic | John Michael Greer

March 4, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Have you ever noticed that in America, magic is always mixed up in the popular imagination with premodern Europe? That’s not just an affectation of the Neopagan movem ...

Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel

July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But wha ...

The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...

The geoengineering of consent: How conspiracists dominate YouTube climate science content | Frontiers

Credit: CC0 Public DomainJuly 25, 2019 (TechXplore) -- Using YouTube to learn about climate-change-related topics will expose you to video content that mostly opposes worldwide scientific consensus. ...

Dishonest acts hurt one's ability to read others' emotions | Jill Young Miller

PinocchioJuly 25, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- A consultant inflates his hours so he'll be paid more. Will his dishonesty later affect whether he'll be able to tell when his client is pleased or upset? In ...

How people engage with science can promote unbelief or beliefs about God | Arizona State University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 18, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote be ...