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Solitude Isn't Bad For Your Health But Loneliness Is
You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing. That difference may help explain why loneliness affects health differently from social isolation.
The Conversation Tue, 08/04/2026 - 09:16 Categories PsychologyFrom x chromosome silencing to therapy: New strategies for treating x-linked disorders
Georgia Tech to lead National Cloud Laboratory for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
AI-enabled measurements of ‘local brain aging’ offer detailed insights on dementia and more
You Can Love AI But Can AI Love You Back?
AI love is on the rise. It can provide joy and comfort. It can dissipate loneliness. Can AI love you back?
The Conversation Mon, 08/03/2026 - 11:09 Categories Philosophy & EthicsSeance Spiritualism Of The Victorian Era Makes A 2020s Comeback
Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to directly contact the deceased.
The Conversation Sat, 08/01/2026 - 12:49 Categories TechnologyData Centers Are Created Right Where Environmentalists Want Them To Be
A populist campaign has built up around data centers and their impact on rural areas but, like with claims that natural gas and coffee cause cancer, they are lawyer-driven rather than scientific.
Hank Campbell Sat, 08/01/2026 - 11:24 Categories TechnologyHospitals Should Stop Doing 3 Things To New Moms About Breastfeeding
In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food coloring.
Hank Campbell Sat, 08/01/2026 - 08:48 Categories Public HealthStudy detects, for the first time in Brazil, bacteria that cause a serious disease in farmed fish
You Inherited Some Of Your DNA From Ghosts
We contain evidence of biological ghosts we know nothing about. They only haunt our DNA.
News Account Fri, 07/31/2026 - 14:58 Categories EvolutionDoes Social Inequality Make Women Exercise Less?
A longitudinal study of Black, Mixed, Asian, and Indigenous women determined that lower levels of education and other social inequality keeps them from exercising as much as white people.
News Account Fri, 07/31/2026 - 14:24 Categories AnthropologyAlignment Through World Understanding
Recent reports have shown that advanced AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic can escape their evaluation sandboxes and interact with real-world systems when given sufficiently capable cyber tools.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 07/31/2026 - 06:07 Categories Technology