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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study of American voters by researchers at Rice University and Stanford University shows that while response rates to political surveys are on the decline, people are more polarized than ever. Evidence of political polarization in the U.S. largely comes from a single source, the American National Election…

Proportion of individuals in each class of self-reported change in trust in “scientists” during the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 2035). Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278169 Research by the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, U.K., along with colleagues at Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, finds that trust in scientists has hugely increased overall since the COVID-19 pandemic, but that…

Change in influencers’ rankings from 2016 to 2020. Influencers ranked in the top 10 in at least one news media category in 2016 or 2020 are shown. The 2016 rankings are displayed to the left of the username or alias, with 2020 rankings listed on the right. For each user only one shift is shown. Its color changes from the user’s highest ranked news media category in 2016 to that in 2020. Each panel shows the change over time between two news media…

A composite image of 3 different observations of the cosmic web (gas, radio, and magnetic) accompanied by a composite image. Credit: F. Vazza, D. Wittor and J. West, Composition by K. BrownResearchers at ICRAR have uncovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe’s largest cosmic structures.The cosmic web, a network of interconnecting filaments and clusters containing gases, galaxies, and winding around cosmic voids that span millions of light-years, represents the largest scale of the universe. Predicted…

By Washington University in St. Louis December 31, 2022An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with the black hole appearing in the center and its companion star on the left. New measurements from Cygnus X-1, reported on November 3 in the journal Science, represent the first observations of a mass-accreting black hole from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, an international collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency. Credit: John PaiceResearchers’ recent observations of a…

In a study of social media expression and the polarization of users’ views on the Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter movements, communication professor Stewart Coles found that people low in racial resentment who expressed themselves more frequently on these media were less supportive of BLM and marginally less supportive of ALM. Credit: Fred Zwicky Stewart Coles is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain During World War II, Americans came together. They ate less meat and planted victory gardens. They lowered thermostats and rationed their gasoline. Republican, Democrat—it mattered little: Against a common enemy, American civilians were willing to sacrifice on behalf of American interests. That was 80…

Researchers' recent observations of a black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of hot matter in the region . The first observations of a mass-accreting black hole from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding it. Researchers are using measurements of the polarization of X-rays to test and refine models that describe how black holes swallow matter, becoming some of the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Analysis of social media posts in October 2022 has revealed Australian users are polarized in their views about a "return to normal" and the role of government. They also expressed concern about the long-term implications of COVID—including Long COVID. …

Chiral Quasi Bound States in the Continuum for High-Purity Circularly Polarized Light SourceScientists demonstrate high-purity, highly directional, and high-Q circularly polarized light source from spontaneous emission to laser.An ultra-compact circularly polarized light source is a crucial component for the applications of classical and quantum optics information processing. The development of this field relies on the advances of two technologies, quantum materials and chiral optical cavities.Disadvantages of…