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US elections: Tech firms couldn't stop misinformation, voter intimidation

The impacts of these efforts by the technology firms have been muted, in part due to the prevalence of social bots that spread low-credibility information virally across these platforms.

US elections: Tech firms couldn't stop misinformation, voter intimidation

The impacts of these efforts by the technology firms have been muted, in part due to the prevalence of social bots that spread low-credibility information virally across these platforms.

Study suggests Covid antibodies fade over time. How concerned should we be?

To answer this question, we need first to consider what antibodies are and what they can tell us about immunity

Does Covid-19 spread more easily in cold temperatures? Here's what we know

We know that more people get colds and flu in the winter (the colds can be caused by types of coronavirus), but there are several potential reasons for this

US elections 2020: Why Americans are so enamoured with opinion polls

While it is possible the polls will misfire, it's exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion research industry to implode or wither away

US Election: Advantage Biden as white evangelical support for Trump slips

A Pew survey on Oct. 13 found that white evangelical support for Trump had slipped since August, from 83% to 78%

Why herd immunity through infection is dangerous, deadly and might not work

A population has achieved herd immunity when a large enough percentage of individuals become immune to a disease

A new normal: How Covid is shaping people's perception of EU, its leaders

An experimental research study suggests that when people are thinking about the health crisis, they express less trust in politicians and political institutions

Investing in nuclear energy over renewable source may be wrong: Here's why

The authors looked at correlations between energy policy and emissions. They noticed that countries pursuing nuclear power don't tend to have significantly lower levels of carbon emissions

Nokia to provide 4G network on Moon: Why it is bad news for radio astronomy

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is the long-term nemesis of radio astronomers. Jodrell Bank - the earliest radio astronomy observatory in the world still in existence - was created because of RFI

Why Covid causes some patients' immune systems to attack their own bodies

Early studies implicated these autoantibodies in dangerous blood clots forming in patients admitted to intensive care

Sick of coronavirus? Here's why you might have the pandemic fatigue

Coronavirus fears had people either ordering necessities for delivery or rushing through stores as fast as possible, avoiding everyone

US presidential debate: This is what a nonverbal communication expert saw

During this debate Joe Biden reacted as the emotionally expressive politician he has been throughout his career

US elections: A duel of contrasting masculinities between Trump and Biden

US voters have to choose between two profoundly different versions of manhood in a race being enacted in highly gendered ways

Nobel Prize in physics goes to work on black holes: Here is the discovery

The fact that mathematics demonstrated that astrophysical black holes may exactly exist in nature is exactly what has energized the quest to search for them using astronomical techniques

Constitutional crisis to succession: What lies ahead as Trump gets Covid-19

The 25th Amendment, ratified by the states in 1967, declares that upon the removal, resignation or death of the president, the vice-president assumes the presidency

Trump is availing the latest treatments: Here's what works against Covid-19

Early in the year, there were few known treatments for people who showed severe Covid-19 symptoms apart from sustaining them on ventilators

Lessons for the world from green transitions in India, China and Brazil

Based on these unexpected clean-energy transitions, researchers have identified three insights relevant across emerging economies

Trump gets Covid-19: Here's what it meant for Boris Johnson and Bolsonaro

With the presidential election just a month away, some insight into the consequences for Donald Trump of testing positive for Covid-19 might be gained from Boris Johnson's brush with the virus

Donald Trump has Covid. How might this affect his chances of re-election?

Because he has often disparaged the virulence of the disease, the president faces the public humiliation of being its victim