Summary: College students increasingly turn to TikTok for information, including on mental health. A new study found that exposure to misinformation about ADHD on the platform reduced students’ factual knowledge…
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There is no climate finance gap
Franziska Mager is senior researcher and advocacy lead for climate and inequalities at the Tax Justice Network. As the climate crisis accelerates, global fault lines widen. Wealthy nations gut aid…
Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf patients
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing…
Australian airline Qantas says hit by ‘significant’ cyberattack
Australian airline Qantas says it is investigating a “significant” cyber attack, after hackers infiltrated a system containing sensitive data on six million customers. . Australian airline Qantas said Wednesday it was…
‘Inflammatory’ diet during pregnancy may raise child’s diabetes type 1 risk
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A diet high in foods with the potential to promote low-grade inflammation during pregnancy may raise that child’s risk of developing type 1 diabetes, suggests Danish…
Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states
Quantum wavepacket dynamics depicting the collective motion of an ensemble of identical spins subject to periodic modulation in their interaction strength. Panels (b) and (c) indicate the generation of highly…
NASA missions help explain and predict severity of solar storms
The strength of the April 2023 geomagnetic storm was a surprise in part because the coronal mass ejection (CME) that produced it followed a relatively weak solar flare, seen as…
How loudness and acoustic cues help us judge where a speaker is facing
Researchers at Sophia University discover that both loudness and frequency-based acoustic cues help listeners identify speaker’s facing direction, a breakthrough for spatial audio in virtual and augmented realities. Credit: Dr.…
Preserved shipwreck contains 2,000-year-old ceramic treasures
A recently discovered shipwreck off the coast of Adrasan, Turkey, has yielded a collection of ceramic treasures dating to the Late Hellenistic–Early Roman period. Located at a depth of up…
