Social inequalities emerge in every human society. New research into how these hierarchies form suggests ‘prestige psychology’ – the tendency to defer to expertise – is at the root.
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Cold snaps can affect everyday services and infrastructure, putting lives at risk.
Any plan to dam or extract water from some of Australia’s last wild rivers must carefully consider the consequences. Prawn, mud crab and barramundi fisheries could suffer in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.
AI-generated voice-alikes can be indistinguishable from the real person’s speech to the human ear. A computer model that gives voice to the dinosaurs turns out to be a good way to tell the difference.
A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?
Infants approach the physical world with some ‘principled expectations’ about how it works. What happens when an AI system is programmed this way?
A digital twin is to a computer model as live video is to a still photo. These virtual replicas can be used to understand and make predictions about a wide range of complex systems, including people.
These coordinated movements of a flock of starlings follow no plan or leader. Scientists used to think the animals must communicate via ESP to create these fast-moving blobs.
Understanding how brain folding works could help researchers better diagnose and treat neurodevelopmental disorders.
Climate models can’t see tornadoes, but they can recognize the conditions for tornadoes to form. An atmospheric scientist explains what that means for forecasting future risks.
Did ancient technological advancements drive social innovation, or vice versa? Studying cause and effect in the ancient world may seem like a fool’s errand, but researchers built a database to do just that.
Researchers used an old theory on vibrating plane wings to study how fish swim so well. They were able to double the swimming efficiency of their robotic fish over a range of speeds.
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.
New research models how the Homo floresiensis species could have evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island.
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor in Computer Science and Statistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Marine Ecologist, CSIRO
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
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Professor of Biology, Clarkson University
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Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
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Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Risk and Information Management, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
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Professor of Infant Studies at MARCS Institute and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, Western Sydney University