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Human behaviour
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Why we are all lab rats in the digital world
Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms…
A thaw in scientific relations could help clear the air in India and Pakistan
A train cuts through winter smog in Amritsar, India.Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty A toxic haze has descended over a…
How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum
Subsidizing people to buy electric vehicles can end up wasting money if they would have purchased one anyway.Credit:…
Local government actions can curb air pollution in India and Pakistan
Nature, Published online: 23 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03314-4 Burning crop waste causes devastating pollution in South Asia. When local…
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions
Sample and basic data collection for 2020 election study First, we collected a list of Twitter users who…
How walkable is your city? Online tool shows how major centres measure up
The push for sustainable living has given rise to the idea of a 15-minute city: one in which…
how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide
The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith W. W. Norton (2024) In the 1620s, King Charles I of…
How influencers and algorithms mobilize propaganda — and distort reality
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality Renée DiResta Public Affairs (2024) Scientific institutions, public-health authorities…
How to change people’s minds about climate change: what the science says
Nature, Published online: 06 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02777-9 Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds,…
Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning
Specifics of continual backpropagation Continual backpropagation selectively reinitializes low-utility units in the network. Our utility measure, called the…