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Artificial intelligence bots can alleviate loneliness, but they can also isolate and create dependency

‘The Smashing Machine’ has put Dwayne Johnson’s name in the Oscars running, but it’s not the first time an actor associated with muscles has displayed thespian talent

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner visited a literary festival in Spain, after several years without publishing fiction. He will soon be handing in his new novel, which blends science fiction with poverty

Various studies have attempted, without success, to analyze whether reading can increase our empathy. The evidence is clearer regarding its power to enhance culture and mental health

The former vice president of MIT warns of the ‘devastating’ consequences of Donald Trump’s policies on the world of science

Biologist Rocío Cruces and her husband, forestry engineer Víctor Faúndez, are the creators of the organization Buena Cabra (“Good Goat”). The couple is developing a smart collar to advance strategic grazing that prevents fires in the central Biobío region, the third-most-populated region in Chile

The Spanish doctor, of the US National Science Foundation, is the only employee to put his full name to a letter against the dismantling of the government agency

The researcher has penned crime novels full of death — and received more than $5.8 million from the European Union toward finding the cure for cancer

The magistrate who ordered the precautionary suspension of the ban on foreign students had already ruled in favor of the university in 2019 in a case on positive discrimination in the admissions system

The most powerful university in the United States, supported by a growing number of schools, has rejected the Republican administration’s attempts at subjugation and censorship over alleged antisemitism on campus

The businesswoman says she was rejuvenated via an illegal gene therapy tested on mice. Scientists are dubious of her claims

The research could help improve the efficiency of flow batteries, which are key for energy from renewable sources due to their large-scale and long-lasting storage capacity

American physicist David Keith is the best-known promoter of solar geoengineering, a controversial alternative in the fight against climate change

This toilet – which doesn’t require water or a sewer connection – aims to solve the lack of sanitation, a problem that affects half of the world’s population, especially women and girls

Robotics is advancing towards embodiment and learning formulas that allow android robots to be developed with aspects and behaviors typical of people

The weaponization of accusations of anti-semitism on college campuses is fueling the controversy over the Gaza war. This is despite the fact that experts point out that this hate speech isn’t a new phenomenon… and that it’s more often attributed to the extreme right

A petition signed by more than 600 faculty members asked the school’s governing body to keep President Claudine Gay in charge

The Department of Education has opened an investigation into a dozen colleges for alleged violations of the civil rights law, which prohibits discrimination

The University of Pennsylvania’s president said she should have gone further to condemn hate against Jewish students

A study shows that a person’s prior beliefs about artificial intelligence greatly influences how they rate their conversations with the tool

The former director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology is concerned about the consequences of the pandemic, which has caused many children to lose two years of studies

Astronomers reported their observations Wednesday of what appears to be a gas giant around the size of Jupiter or bigger being eaten by its star