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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2025 09:09 ET (17-Jun-2025 13:09 GMT/UTC)

Mind’s ear: Investigating the sounds in your head

University of Auckland
Meeting Announcement

Scientists investigating the sounds we imagine in our minds want to pull in philosphers, musicians, poets and writers for an exploration of the topic.

Meeting: ‘Mind’s Ear and Inner Voice’

Researcher defines 'kindness' in healthcare

University of Auckland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Auckland research defines 'kindness' in healthcare

Journal: BMJ Leader

Research shows solitude is better for your health when it’s not too intense

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hiking by yourself deep in a forest and similar episodes of intense solitude are not as likely to restore energy and enhance social connectedness as less complete forms of solitude, such as reading in a café or listening to Spotify while commuting.

Journal: PLOS One

World’s only bonobo sanctuary helps orphaned apes overcome trauma to develop social skills and empathy

Durham University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers.

Journal: Royal Society Open Science
Funder: Templeton World Charity Foundation, H2020 European Research Council

The high cost of carbon

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The social cost of carbon — an important figure global policymakers use to analyze the benefits of climate and energy policies — is too low, finds UC Davis study.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Advertisers beware: How privacy-preserving policies adopted by companies like google could reduce ad effectiveness

American Marketing Association

Privacy-preserving policies that shorten the retention period of consumer data can reduce ad variety in multi-product ads, possibly leading to increased within-category satiation and diminished cross-category complementarity, ultimately negatively impacting ad performance and platform revenues.

Journal: Journal of Marketing

When algorithms decide for you: a warning about automation and the loss of freedom

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Allowing algorithms to make more and more decisions can lead to frustration, restrict freedoms, and harm the most vulnerable people