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‘Slums’ of Victorian Manchester housed wealthy doctors and engineers, new study reveals

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential segregation’ in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians have long assumed that Manchester’s middle classes sheltered from the poor in town houses and suburban villas. But by mapping digitized census data, new research shows that many middle-class Mancunians including doctors and engineers lived in the same buildings and streets as working-class residents including weavers and spinners.

Journal: The Historical Journal

Winners of Applied Microbiology International Horizon Awards 2025 announced

Applied Microbiology International
Grant and Award Announcement

The winners of the Applied Microbiology International Horizon Awards 2025 have been announced. The prizes, awarded by the learned society Applied Microbiology International (AMI), celebrate the brightest minds in the field and promote the research, group, projects, products and individuals who continue to help shape the future of applied microbiology.

Unconscious cognitive processes may fuel election fraud beliefs

Association for Psychological Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows that how we process information, in addition to party allegiances, can contribute to beliefs of vote tampering.

Journal: Psychological Science

How do people learn new facts?

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The quality of activity in distinct brain areas during learning can predict whether people successfully acquire knowledge about places and characters in fictional civilizations.

Journal: JNeurosci
Funder: HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

AI-generated content triple threat for Reddit moderators

Cornell University
Reports and Proceedings

Reddit bills itself as “the most human place on the internet,” but the proliferation of artificial intelligence-generated content is threatening to squeeze some of the humanity out of the news-sharing forum, according to new Cornell University research.

Adverse, positive childhood experience levels in US haven’t changed much

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research shows that overall, the prevalence of adverse and positive childhood experiences reported by parents of teenagers hasn’t changed substantially in the United States in recent years. The findings suggest that interventions designed to boost positive family experiences and shield children from negative experiences may not be hitting the mark on a national scale, the study’s authors say.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
Funder: National Institute of Nursing Research, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Ohio State College of Nursing Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children and Youth

How to make ‘smart city’ technologies behave ethically

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers are proposing an approach that will allow policymakers and technology developers to better align the values programmed into smart city technologies with the ethics of the people who will be interacting with them.

Journal: Algorithms
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation