Historical cases and scientific analysis show that the most common human reaction to disasters is to help others, a trait that defines our species and that authorities do not know how to channel
Ethical debates regarding Colossal Biosciences’s achievements and over-marketing aside, the company behind woolly mice is expanding our views on what’s possible
Silicon Valley is trying to impose a narrative of blocs involving the US and China. But what’s really scary is their own greed, and how they are using AI to increase the gap between rich and poor
The impact of the disinformation industry, the media crisis, and the political agendas of social networks has created a perfect storm in democracies, one that is eroding the relationship between citizens, information, and reality
The neuroscientist studies how people fall into extremism and how the brain processes misinformation in polarized situations
Keir Starmer’s government demands responsibility from social media platforms after the riots sparked by the deaths of three young girls and has criticised Elon Musk, who permits disinformation on X
The vice president suffered similar attacks in 2020, when internet trolls focused on her gender, her skin color and her parents’ background
The story of a woman taken out of context years later to criticize feminism has gone viral following a chain of events that highlights the complexity of misinformation
A meme generated with artificial intelligence has gone viral, providing a warning about a digital environment that will be dominated by the automatic generation of content
The Intuitive Machines probe aims to become the first private device to land on the satellite next week
These deposits, which would be enough to fill the Red Sea, could be used by astronauts on exploration missions and to study the possible existence of life on the Red Planet
The tycoon’s descent into the pit of far-right hoaxes has been crystallized on social media. His identity crisis seems to have been marked by financial interests and personal issues
Widespread amazement at creative artificial intelligence has resulted in the fever of technocapitalism, which aims to monopolize profits and impose regulations that favor its interests over those of society
The dirt and rocks collected by the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx probe contain water and carbon, reinforcing the idea that these elements could have reached Earth in meteorites
Tech tycoons want regulation of artificial intelligence because it threatens the future of humanity, but some women just want to protect their daughters
In collaboration with NASA, the Guatemalan researcher from the University of Colorado sent ‘12,000 mutant yeasts’ around the satellite on the Orion spacecraft
The most conservative people tend to distrust scientists, believing that these experts threaten their own identity. They have been influenced by populist elites after decades of misinformation
The solar maximum appears to have moved forward, causing more eruptive phenomena on our star and placing terrestrial communication systems on alert
In a chaotic move worthy of study in business schools everywhere, Elon Musk has turned his flagship product into the new scarlet letter, a badge of dishonor that no one wants to wear
Up to 6% of the observations made with the ‘Hubble’ are being spoiled by the Starlink network, which will multiply tenfold its number of satellites in the sky with the deployment of mega-constellations
Experts explain why the tremors were so devastating and what local residents can expect in the coming weeks
With its peculiar optical illusion, this visitor from outer space can be better appreciated with binoculars or a telescope and away from light pollution
Authorities allowed a Long March-5B Y4 core stage to detach in a chaotic manner, triggering fears of dangerous falling debris hitting land
In his book ‘The Power of Words,’ the researcher reviews the science behind the extraordinary capacity of conversation and how to have a fruitful dialogue
The specialist in asteroids and comets has just published ‘The Earth in Danger’ in a bid to help us understand the risk of impact
A study demonstrates that some dogs are genetically predisposed to understand humans, but it is unclear whether a single determinant caused the evolutionary leap
New research shows the mammal can identify other group members through their sense of taste, as well as their signature whistle