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Around the world, many people report distrusting their government. In some places, such as Latin America, North America, and Africa, trust in government has declined in recent decades. How can governments rebuild this trust?New research from the MIT Governance...

On paper, my interview with Casey Harrell looks like any other.I ask the questions, he answers them. He tells me about his background as a climate activist, his Southern roots and his daughter, who as a preschooler loved to...

“Exponentially exploding,” mathematician Thomas Bloom told me by phone, describing the flood of new results in his field. Little did he know that hours later, OpenAI was going to post 722 mathematical manuscripts an unreleased AI model had produced.The...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack. Source link

A voice matters not just to the person who is speaking, but to the people listening, too. A study on moms and their daughters demonstrates the power of a voice by showing that moms’ voices reduced a measure of...

MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis. Using their new technique, the...

When government officials craft policies, there is often a comment period for public feedback. Lawmakers have long had to sort through fake feedback that is mass-produced in an effort to sway policy, but they’ve generally gotten used to detecting...

Towering coast redwoods are known for their resiliency, withstanding fire, fungus and rot to survive for centuries. But these ancient trees now may be vulnerable to a relatively recent foe: heat waves.As temperatures climb, photosynthesis slows in these iconic...

It’s Nobels season — that time of the year when we find out which groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting, world-changing achievements beat out the rest to win what is arguably the most prestigious award on Earth.From a light switch for the brain...

Kilauea has been erupting almost continuously for nearly 200 years, and volcanologists have seen a lot of sides to Hawaii’s most active volcano. But in the last year, Kilauea started doing something new: firing up frequent fountains of lava.The...