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Relationships between authoritarian predispositions, media attention, and identifying issues as threats. Credit: Politics and the Life Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1017/pls.2023.12 Those with authoritarian political views are more likely to be concerned about terrorism and border control than a future new health pandemic, new research shows. …

This series of still images, produced with data acquired by TROPICS, shows structural changes within Hurricane Adrian as the storm intensified. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data provided by the TROPICS team NASA's newest storm-watching satellites have collected their first views of hurricanes, offering scientists a new tool for understanding the inner workings of storms over shorter time…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Views of immigrants vary by political party affiliation, with Republicans holding both negative and positive perceptions of immigrants and Democrats expressing uniformly positive ones, finds a new study that sheds additional light on the complexities of immigration polarization. "While there has…

Ideological predictors of antisemitism in Study 2. Product-moment coefficients of correlation with Generalized Antisemitism, Judeophobic Antisemitism, and Antizionist Antisemitism (with 95% confidence intervals). Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01624-y People who believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to have antisemitic opinions than non-believers, new research…

A new study suggests that the formation of mountains, particularly in subduction zones like southern Italy, might be significantly influenced by the descension of a tectonic plate through Earth’s mantle and its alteration of mantle flow, contrary to the traditional belief of crust crumpling and thickening, offering a more nuanced understanding of mountain building process.New research led by Colorado State University indicates the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought.“Mountain building…

The Milky Way over Pain de Sucre, France.Photo: Jeff GraphyThe cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena—from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies—are worth capturing.The winners of the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photography of the Year competition are set to be announced this September, and in anticipation of the announcement we’re sharing photos on the observatory’s shortlist. The Milky Way over Pain de Sucre, France.Photo: Jeff GraphyThe cosmos is…

NASA’s MAVEN mission has captured two remarkable ultraviolet images of Mars at different points in its orbit in 2022 and 2023, offering unique insights into the planet’s atmosphere and seasonal variations. These images will aid in understanding Mars’ atmospheric loss, informing about its climate history and potential habitability. Credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div…

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Spotify, the music and podcast streaming service, is rolling out a redesigned user interface for MacBook and PC users globally. The company made the announcement via its blog post on Tuesday. The app has brought a few additions including redesigned Your Library and Now Playing views to align the desktop experience with the mobile app. The app has made it easier to access saved music and podcast collections in Your Library. Spotify has also repositioned the ‘Now Playing' view as well as the Friend…

It shouldn’t be surprising that Elon Musk has weighed in on the social media spat between Megan Fox and Robby Starbuck over the conservative provocateur’s disputed allegations that the “Transformers” actor committed “child abuse” by forcing her three sons with Brian Austin Green to wear girl’s clothes. Musk has spent Pride Month promoting and “liking” various anti-LGBTQ messages, according to Insider, Them and TMZ. even though he has a transgender daughter who publicly disavowed her relationship with him last year. Among…