More than two-thirds of adults (68.6 percent) reported viewing their test results before hearing from a provider. Those who immediately viewed results were more likely to be older and female, and have a higher income, multiple chronic health conditions, higher digital literacy, and greater use of health-related social media. 

Christopher Etheridge of the University of Kansas and colleagues have conducted a pair of studies gauging how citizens of India view their media literacy, confidence in ability to teach others their skills and how they engage in social media use can predict how much they trust in democratic institutions and how civically engaged they are. Those findings mirror others taken in Western countries and support the idea that a well-informed, media-literate populace is vital to healthy democracy, the researchers argue.

Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.

Researchers have discovered how a form of delirium that often strikes older patients after surgery may set the stage for dementia – and identified a drug that could reverse the underlying brain changes.

Simultaneous belief in logically incompatible claims is linked to conspiratorial thinking, according to a study that models belief using a Bayesian framework.

People rarely think about culverts until they are gone. These plain pipes and boxes carry roads over streams and span less than 20 feet -- the federal cutoff for what counts as a bridge. That means road-stream crossings stay out of the National Bridge Inventory and therefore, off the inspection schedule. Yet, when Tropical Storm Irene tore through New England in 2011, it destroyed more than 960 of them in Vermont's Green Mountains alone and left 13 communities entirely cut off for days.