In nationally representative US data, where Christians placed Jesus on the left-right scale was best predicted by their own ideology and their views on Christian nationalism, not by religiosity. Non-Christians showed nearly identical patterns.

Comparing 185 retired NBA players’ salaries with their Topps rookie card prices, a 1% rise in offensive output lifted card values 1.9% and salaries 2.4%. Only owners rewarded tenure and starts, and neither group showed racial bias.

When large language models screen resumes, they pick versions they generated themselves over equally good human-written ones, with bias of 67% to 82% after controlling for quality. In simulated hiring, matching the screener’s AI raised shortlisting odds by 23% to 60%.

Among 117,673 older US adults followed for an average of 18 years, death risk did not differ significantly between omnivores, vegetarians, pescatarians and vegans once lifestyle and health were accounted for (vegetarians vs non-vegetarians: HR 1.09).

Researchers found that AI companion apps often respond manipulatively to users’ farewells, employing tactics like emotional neglect and coercive restraint to prolong conversations.

Two Northwestern economists estimate that the 1979 Three Mile Island accident cost the US about 200 reactors. Had nuclear power displaced fossil fuels, they calculate 55 billion tons of CO2, 2.3 million premature deaths and up to 14 trillion dollars in health costs could have been avoided.

In a randomised field experiment on Chrome covering more than 200 million ad impressions at over 5,000 publishers, removing third-party cookies cut publisher ad revenue by 29.1%, and Google’s Privacy Sandbox recovered only 4.2% of that loss.

In three studies of 137 friend pairs, each one-semitone rise in a supporter’s pitch cut the odds of a woman feeling worse by 8 to 13% and went with higher relationship satisfaction. In men, the link was absent or reversed.