The Internet’s “Danger Zones”: How to Spot Information Voids Before Misinformation Takes Over

Social media and the open web run on an attention…

When AI Decides What “Violence” Means… It Doesn’t Think Like You Do

“Violence” feels like an obvious word—until someone asks you to…

The “Hidden Traffic Hack” in Chaotic Roads: Why 30–60% Vehicle Grouping Can Boost Flow (and When It Backfires)

If you’ve ever watched traffic in places where lane lines…

The “Household Size” Bombshell: Why Some European Countries Were Basically Set Up to Lose Against COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe saw huge differences in how…

6G Radar Just “Cheated” Physics: Huge Antenna “Gaps” Unlock Near-Field Super-Resolution

Wireless sensing for 6G is running into a weird “good…

Why Better Risk-Sharing Almost Never Happens in Complex Economies (Even When Everyone Wants It)

A new paper by Federico Echenique and Farzad Pourbabaee explores…

What If One Hidden Data Point Could Beat Traditional Pricing? A Surprising Breakthrough in AI-Era Revenue Strategy

A new research paper introduces a surprisingly powerful idea in…

When AI Decides What “Violence” Means… It Doesn’t Think Like You Do

“Violence” feels like an obvious word—until someone asks you to…

Rebuilding Docker Images? The Bad News: Only ~1 in 40 Are Truly Reproducible

Container images are now a core unit of software delivery—and…

Mind the Boundary: How a Cloud Run “A2A Hub” Makes Gemini Enterprise Agents Actually Stable

Enterprise chat UIs are moving fast from “one model answers…

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AI That “Knows Physics” Can Predict Blood Flow in Your Neck—Without Expensive Scans or Slow Simulations

Cardiovascular disease is still the world’s biggest killer, and a major culprit is atherosclerosis—plaque buildup…

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Scientists Might Finally Measure the Exact Moment Life Begins — And It Changes Everything

One of science’s oldest mysteries is deceptively simple: How does life actually begin? For decades,…

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NYC’s Congestion Toll Shock: Who Really Wins, Who Pays the Price?

When New York City launched its congestion pricing program in January 2025, it promised faster…

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Your “Best” Estimator Might Be Lying: The Hidden Freedom That Can Flip Economic Results

Economists often rely on statistical models that are over-identified—meaning the model implies more testable conditions…

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Forecasting Oil Volatility through Network Models

This paper proposes a new method to forecast oil price volatility that is: just as…

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Why Working From Home Doesn’t Fix the Real Problem for Disabled Workers — And What Actually Will

Remote work was supposed to be the great equalizer. The pandemic forced companies to rethink…

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BioBridge: Teaching LLMs to “Read” Proteins Without Forgetting How to Think

Protein science has a scale problem: databases like UniProt contain millions of protein sequences, but…

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Rebuilding Docker Images? The Bad News: Only ~1 in 40 Are Truly Reproducible

Container images are now a core unit of software delivery—and a prime target for supply-chain…

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Mind the Boundary: How a Cloud Run “A2A Hub” Makes Gemini Enterprise Agents Actually Stable

Enterprise chat UIs are moving fast from “one model answers everything” to multi-agent systems: expense…

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Why Some Professors Thrive With Generative AI (and Others Resist): The Hidden Power of Digital Self-Efficacy

Generative AI has landed in higher education like a shockwave. Tools that can draft text, generate examples, and help with research are now widely accessible—and they’re forcing universities to rethink…

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Can Chatbots Keep Survivors Safe? Testing AI Advice for Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Why this matters Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is when an abusive partner uses everyday tech—phones, smart home devices, GPS trackers, social media, shared cloud accounts—to monitor, harass, or control someone. Survivors…

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When AI Sounds Smart but Lies: How Students Spot (and Miss) ChatGPT Hallucinations

AI tools like ChatGPT are now a normal part of student life. Many students use them for coding help, explanations, summaries, and research. But there’s a big problem that can…

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Dark Mode Doesn’t Always Save Energy: The Hidden Brightness Trap

Dark mode is often promoted as a simple way to save energy—especially on phones with OLED screens, where black pixels use less power. Many websites and apps even hint that…

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The Internet’s “Danger Zones”: How to Spot Information Voids Before Misinformation Takes Over

Social media and the open web run on an attention economy: people demand information (they search, read, and click) while creators and media supply information (they post, publish, and share).…

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Humans debate the meaning of violence while AI outputs a single confident label.

When AI Decides What “Violence” Means… It Doesn’t Think Like You Do

“Violence” feels like an obvious word—until someone asks you to define it. Is it only physical harm? Or does it include humiliation, exclusion, online harassment, and threats? A 2026 study…

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The “Hidden Traffic Hack” in Chaotic Roads: Why 30–60% Vehicle Grouping Can Boost Flow (and When It Backfires)

If you’ve ever watched traffic in places where lane lines are more “suggestions” than rules—think motorcycles weaving, auto-rickshaws squeezing through gaps, cars and heavy vehicles negotiating space on the fly—you’ve…

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A split-screen illustration: • Left: “Small households” (single/couple icons) with a small flame • Right: “Large households” (family/multigenerational icons) with a bigger flame Caption: “Same virus. Different fuel.”

The “Household Size” Bombshell: Why Some European Countries Were Basically Set Up to Lose Against COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe saw huge differences in how widely the virus spread from country to country. A common explanation is “policy differences” — lockdown timing, mask rules, school…

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When AI Sounds Smart but Lies: How Students Spot (and Miss) ChatGPT Hallucinations

AI tools like ChatGPT are now a normal part of student life. Many students use them for coding help, explanations, summaries, and research. But there’s a big problem that can…

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A split-screen illustration: • Left: “Small households” (single/couple icons) with a small flame • Right: “Large households” (family/multigenerational icons) with a bigger flame Caption: “Same virus. Different fuel.”

The “Household Size” Bombshell: Why Some European Countries Were Basically Set Up to Lose Against COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe saw huge differences in how widely the virus spread from country to country. A common explanation is “policy differences” — lockdown timing, mask rules, school…

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Your Video Search Is Too Vague — This AI Rewrites It (Only When It Should)

Searching in short-video apps is harder than it looks. People type very short queries—often just a name or a few words—so the search engine can’t always tell what they mean.…

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Teaching AI to Find Person–Place Links in Historical Texts

HIPE-2026 is a public AI competition (a “shared task”) run as part of CLEF, where teams build systems that read old historical texts and answer a surprisingly tricky question: “Which…

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