Tag: life&news
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next
Siwei Lyu, University at Buffalo
Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances...
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers...
Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian G. Henning, Gonzaga University; Cara Poland, Michigan State University; Nathaniel M. Tran, University of Illinois Chicago;...
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The ‘sacred’ pledge that will power the relaunch of far-right militia...
Alexander Lowie, University of Florida
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November...
AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the...
Thomas Şerban von Davier, Carnegie Mellon University
In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to...
Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University
The U.S. economy heads into 2026 in...
What loving-kindness meditation is and how to practice it in the...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
A popular New Year’s resolution is to take up meditation – specifically mindfulness meditation....
Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the...
Sam Vong, Smithsonian Institution
In 2005, Antonio Somera, a Filipino American member of the Legionarios del Trabajo, a Masonic...
