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Field studying how scientific findings and institutions are communicated to and perceived by the public, including trust and media framing.
NIH launches a redesigned website on Monday that sorts its information into eight topic hubs, grants among them, instead of by its 27 institutes. Old sites stay up until redirects are in place, so grant seekers will meet the harder test later, as those sites close.
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UConn researchers coded 194 Instagram posts by three women astronauts and found them deliberately pairing science with personal, feminine content. Because the analysis covered the posts themselves, it documents a strategy without testing whether that strategy makes audiences trust the science more.
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Two GLP-1 studies covered by the Washington Post used 'control' to mean an untreated group in one and a four-variable adjustment in the other. Only the first let researchers choose who took the drug, a statistician writes in The Conversation.
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A thought experiment published by The Conversation walks a Yellowstone super-eruption from the first earthquake swarm to a VEI 8 blast, and the timeline it lays out hands monitoring staff two months of ambiguous signals.
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NC State researchers surveyed 1,854 Americans and found 60% or more interested in science or convinced it benefits society, 43% calling it credible and 39% feeling they belong in it. The fix they propose rests on about 260 self-selected participants.
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Project RattleCam's livestreams put dated newborn sightings on the record in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania this season, including a litter from a five-year-old female the project first saw as a newborn in 2021.
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Goethe University researchers had 1,143 students score five forms of animal keeping on the same scale, and zoos, which face routine inspection under German husbandry guidelines, came out worst of the five.
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In 2,642 responses to the 2022 British Social Attitudes Survey, agreement that a described circumstance counts as poverty ran from 41% to 80%, with the ideological gap widest exactly where agreement was thinnest.
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The telescope's first proposal round came back twelvefold oversubscribed. Hubble and Webb have posted the same result for years: the figure describes how much telescope time exists, not Roman's standing in particular.
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The Abu-Tartur assemblage now runs to seven lamniform species. The phosphate bed that preserved them is a condensed section, which is why the authors read productivity out of it rather than a living community.
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Subsurface heat content has passed the 1997-98 super event with the peak still months away, while the surface index has not. The furthest-out year any quoted scientist names is 2026.
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A PLOS One survey of 1,000 adults puts regular statistics users at 11%. If you publish risk numbers, forecasts or dashboards, that is your readership.
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Annenberg finds 70% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats favor banning the herbicide, while most respondents say they have heard little about it. A one-point party gap is not a gap at all.
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Scientific American's Science Quickly walked through early psilocybin research in anorexia nervosa. The condition kills about 5% of patients within four years of diagnosis, which is the real story.
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On Quanta's podcast, the Santa Fe Institute's Melanie Mitchell says we lack adequate methods for measuring machine cognition, and points to how psychologists test babies and animals.
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Elisabeth Marnik grew up with no vaccines and now runs a science communication group. Her account puts the decisive failure in the consultation room, not in the pamphlet.
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The document behind this week's headlines is an analytical essay built on the authors' own TikTok monitoring: no cognitive testing, no sample of children, no control group.
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