Despite containment and COVID-19 jabs; “serious cause for concern,” say researchers Excess death rates have remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a data analysis of 47 countries published in the…

States with more conservative political leadership and policies tend to have worse health outcomes, including higher mortality rates, lower vaccination coverage, and greater food insecurity, compared to states with more liberal governance.

Researchers working with complex datasets — whether from patient health records or self-driving car sensors — could uncover a wealth of insights hidden in patterns they never knew existed. For many AI experts, reaching that “aha” moment is difficult because…

Analysis of eight million political speeches reveals: never before have members of the US Congress based their rhetoric more strongly on personal convictions – and less on facts. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality"…

Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature…

Nature Human Behaviour - Liang et al. estimate the prevalence of text modified by large language models in recent scientific papers and preprints, finding widespread use (up to 17.5% of papers in...

A study using data from over 1,000 rivers shows that these extreme events now last almost twice as long on the water as they do in the air

Nature Communications - The authors create a distributed sensor array that achieves optical super-resolution without lenses, using computational synchronization to combine multiple sensors and...