Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in making critical rescue decisions, suggests a new study. 

New studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology found that people residing in redlined neighborhoods—neighborhoods that were subjected to the historic practice of mortgage lending discrimination by the federal government—were less likely to conceive than those who lived in neighborhoods the government deemed favorable for mortgage lending. 

A pioneering new book led by a Swansea University academic is offering a fresh perspective on dementia by challenging one of the most familiar assumptions about the condition: that memory loss is always the earliest and most defining symptom.

Arecent study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) reveals that socioeconomic conditions are a determining factor in young people’s ability to identify digital advertising personalization strategies. The lower young people’s socioeconomic status is, the more their ability to detect algorithmically personalized advertising also declines. Therefore, the study concludes that digital advertising is exacerbating structural inequalities and warns that algorithmic awareness cannot be understood as an individual cognitive ability but should be linked to people’s social environment.

Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according to new research from the University of Georgia.