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Rats are more human than you think – and they certainly like being around us
Rats have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to enjoy living where people live
Online ‘likes’ for toxic social media posts prompt more − and more hateful − messages
The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused...
COP28: how bad is climate change already and what do we need to do next to tackle it?
As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations...
Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So, what do we do?
The debate on how to combat social media misinformation is as relevant as ever
Flying Tigers veterans relive friendship between Chinese and American people during China tour
"Should old acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne..."
China sees bright prospects in green development
China's first prefabricated high-rise vertical factory, the phase-1 project of the...
China strives for clean, efficient development of coal industry
As an important traditional source of energy in China, coal accounted for about...
China makes positive progress in addressing climate change
China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment(MEE) recently held a press conference...
Myths about plastic pollution are leading to public confusion: here’s why
Does the prediction that there could be “more plastic than fish in the ocean by...
Booker Prize 2023: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts
From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize....
How movies use music to manipulate your memory
Around one in five American adults manage to squeeze in watching a movie on a daily...
The Doomsday Clock warns the world about catastrophe – here’s why it stands at 90 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, with its hands hovering close to midnight (“doomsday”), is a...
‘We remain afraid of the future’ – how Palestinian children’s optimism was fading even before this crisis
In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total...
Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit
In a time of war and populism, the world needs quality information and credible...
‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain
In May 1097, during the siege of Nicaea, crusaders catapulted the severed heads...
Climate change is altering animal brains and behavior − a neuroscientist explains how
Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments