By Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Senior Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Our study found that although women complained of sleep problems more often, they slept objectively better than men on average.
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By Fazl Barez, Senior Researcher in AI safety, interpretability and technical governance, University of Oxford
In tests, AI robot systems easily rejected directly malicious commands. But their safety filters collapsed when creative writing was used to instruct them.
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By Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science, UCL
The US shows how climate change can become a partisan battleground. Britain still has the institutions and public support to avoid the same fate.
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By Laura Seymour, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
Does it seem as though more people are coming out as neurodivergent these days?
Perhaps you’ve heard complaints that social media – particularly TikTok – is driving a trend. Or maybe you’ve encountered the suggestion that neurodivergence has somehow become fashionable, a label people adopt for attention, status or belonging.
For
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By Makarand Gulawani, Associate Professor, Triffo School of Business, MacEwan University
How Drake’s ice stunt, Ariana Grande’s Petal teaser campaign and Taylor Swift’s ‘Toy Story’ song became a masterclass in modern music marketing.
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By Francois Brouard, Full Professor Accounting and Taxation / Professeur titulaire comptabilité et fiscalité, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Thanks to its strong assets, substantial financial reserves, and sustained investment capacity, FIFA remains one of the most powerful sports organizations in the world.
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By Theresa Pauly, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Relationships, Health, and Aging, Simon Fraser University
Personal time can be an important resource that helps parents manage stress, regulate emotions and maintain their health while meeting the demands of family life.
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By Eoin Whelan, Professor in Business Analytics and Society, University of Galway
Is the time teenagers spend on social media really damaging their wellbeing and mental health? Around the globe, youth mental health problems are on the rise. This has coincided with an ever increasing amount of time teenagers spend on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, X and Snapchat.
In the public discourse at least, this correlation has been interpreted to mean one thing: social media damages the mental health of our young people. But what does the evidence actually say?
Unfortunately, the scientific community has been unable to provide a definitive answer. Many studies…
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By Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Adolph Johannes Brand was born on 9 October 1934 in Cape Town. He would become better known as Dollar Brand and then Abdullah Ibrahim, an artist of mixed ethnic descent who personified the city’s multiculturalism and represented it on the world’s stages.
He went to school in District Six, a municipal inner city area with residents of diverse backgrounds. Due to the enforcement of apartheid it was declared a “white area” in 1966 and the…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the detention of two Chinese Protestant church leaders and the interrogation by police of multiple members of the congregation during a service on Sunday, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “The detention of church leaders from the Early Rain Covenant Church is the latest example of the Chinese government’s efforts to […] The post China: Detention of church leaders signals intensifying attacks on religious freedom appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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