How ChatGPT is sneaking its favorite words (like “delve” and “bolster”) into our everyday conversations
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute found ChatGPT’s preferred vocabulary, termed “GPT words,” influences everyday language, increasing usage in both academic and casual conversations.
This new study finds that shade-grown coffee could help save birds
March 4, 2021
A new study finds that knowledge about how shade-grown coffee can help save bird habitats is not getting through to enough people.
Study finds 83% of patients triaged by a robot doctor said it was as good as a human doctor
March 4, 2021
A new study finds that patients are receptive to interacting with a "robot doctor" designed to evaluate symptoms in a contact-free way.
This new study finds that American identity is increasingly shaped by politics
March 3, 2021
A new study finds that American identity is now shaped more than ever before by politics, which now outweighs even religion.
For grief professionals, bereavement meaning has changed under COVID-19
March 2, 2021
A new study suggests that major changes in bereavement care — and indeed bereavement meaning –have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New study finds that conversations rarely end when people want them to
March 1, 2021
A new study finds that on average, participants wished their conversations had been 1.9 minutes (or 24%) longer than they were.
Bullied youths are much more likely to have violent fantasies, new study shows
February 28, 2021
About 97% of the most-bullied boys and 73% of the most-bullied girls have violent fantasies, according to a new study of 1,465 young people.
New study finds 20% of people have a genetic variant that provides resilience to the cold
February 20, 2021
A new study finds that almost one in five people lack a certain protein in their muscles, which gives them better resilience to the cold.
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for mass extinctions
February 16, 2021
It was not overhunting, but climate change that led to the extinction of huge North American animals like mammoths, a new study suggests.