Though it is true that sea ice melt is not a large contributor to sea level rise, the measuring cup experiment is an inaccurate and oversimplified "proof." It does not debunk sea level rise or climate ...

Twitter is taking a new approach in its fight against election misinformation. The company previewed a series of PSAs it will place at the top of US users’ timelines and in search results that are ...

Fake images and videos are the next targets of Facebook’s ongoing effort to fight misinformation. Videos and photos that users flag as potentially false will now filter into the dashboard that ...

Scientists, however, remain skeptical. A recent study by a group of psychologists from five universities, rebuffs Gladwell’s wisdom. Different levels of deliberate practice can only explain one third ...

In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time. According to his book “The Half-Life of Facts,” ...

In the digital age, where misinformation spreads rapidly, artificial intelligence has emerged as a potential solution for countering conspiracy theories. As Gordon Pennycook, one of the study’s ...

You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp. Poynter Institute, a non-profit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on the ...

Tampa Bay experts debunk human trafficking myths, explaining how exploitation often involves trusted people rather than ...

FAME, glory and a modest academic salary can all be yours if you write an important scientific study. You might even change the world, as Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel found. They were the authors ...

In the digital age, where misinformation spreads rapidly, artificial intelligence has emerged as a potential solution for countering conspiracy theories. As Gordon Pennycook, one of the study’s ...