Study finds peer religious discrimination harms mental health more than exclusionary organizational policies

Means for summed religious discrimination and victimization experiences by religious tradition. Credit: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2023). DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12871 Religious discrimination from one’s peers has a far…

China opposes ‘not realistic’ global fossil fuel phase-out

From Beijing, climate envoy Xie Zhenhua stood firm against stronger rhetoric against coal, oil and gas deployed at UN headquarters China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said today that a global…

In the future, we’ll see fewer generic AI chatbots like ChatGPT and more specialized ones that are tailored to our needs

Credit: Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock AI technology is developing rapidly. ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing online service in history. Google and Microsoft are integrating generative AI into their products. And…

In helium-three, superfluid particles pair ‘like a dance in space’

how farmers spurred India’s G20 biofuels alliance

Nineteen countries signed up to an India-led alliance this month to boost production of biofuels, but experts raise sustainability concerns Transforming farmers from annadatas to urjadatas, from food producers to…

A model probing the connection between entangled particles and wormholes in general relativity

This shows the simulation, or time evolution, of the system. t-bar is a unitless time variable. The blue curve illustrates the wormhole. The horizontal portion is the main part of…

Research team’s shape-changing smart speaker lets users mute different areas of a room

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a shape-changing smart speaker, which uses self-deploying microphones to divide rooms into speech zones and track the position…

Australia probes COVID-19 response

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Australia announced Thursday an inquiry into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to fortress-like travel restrictions, rolling lockdowns and a sluggish initial vaccine rollout.…

‘Bubble’ of Galaxies: Revolution of Cosmology

An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant ‘bubble’ of galaxies, measuring one billion light-years across, in the nearby universe. Team member Dr Cullan Howlett from The University of…

Recipes for Origin of Life Point to Distant, Inhabited Planets

Life on a faraway planet — if it’s out there — might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe’s…