Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today announced the age limit for his government’s controversial social media ban: children under 16. He plans to take the proposal to a virtual meeting of national ...

Australia is set to ban social media for kids under 16, in a stated attempt to minimise "harms that are being caused to young people" through the platforms. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced ...

Open-source software—in which a developer releases the source code for a product and allows anyone else to reuse and remix it ...

The German government aims to make state funding for culture and science depend on adhering to a controversial antisemitism definition. Many legal experts, Jewish scholars, and rights groups say it ...

Every year, large numbers of Chinese students follow Luo's example to leave their academic footprints at foreign institutions. And the enthusiasm has extended beyond campus, with general reading ...

Social sciences are taught in schools all around the world as part of the curriculum. These courses are about mankind and society, and students will learn about economics, social behavior, politics, ...

Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation has set governments against teen social media – and triggered a months-long ...

University of Michigan researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner ...

Researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner of competitions, including sports, games and social hierarchies in both humans and animals.

Uncertainty is a core tenet of science — researchers should be supported so they can communicate it with confidence to the ...

A new study highlights that the distribution of asymmetries in the brain is relevant to understanding the link between ...

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