Prior research suggests that people on the left tend to be less inclined toward aggression, thanks to traits like empathy. The arrest of Luigi Mangione, following the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, led to an increase in support for partisan violence among Democrats against Republicans.

Credit: Denis Borisov/Getty Researchers are increasingly using autonomous artificial-intelligence agents for data interpretation. The accuracy of this analysis depends on the data sets that are available to these programs, and a new study documents how easy it is for fraudsters to ‘poison’ these resources by uploading manipulated data sets that closely resemble the original ones…

America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark A Smithsonian magazine special report The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to search our solar system An illustration of all 726 solar systems depicting planets confirmed as of October 30, 2018, the…

STEM DOMINANCE: Enrollment for courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics continued to grow despite the overall decline, statistics showed Taiwan’s college and university enrollment fell to 1.057 million last year, down 147,000 over the past five years, as the nation’s declining birthrate continues to reduce undergraduate numbers, while the proportion of students in science…

Wildfire season is fully upon us—and with it, the smoke. The most spectacular threat of a wildfire is of course the possibility it might directly threaten lives and homes, like the wildfires last year that devastated Los Angeles. But it is the smoke and the stinging haze—and especially the invisible particulate matter borne aloft for…

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve never been definitively spotted on Pluto, even though the icy world has all the ingredients necessary for their formation. Images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft reveal six large landslides on the dwarf planet, researchers…

Earlier this month, MLT Aikins was pleased to sponsor a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce-hosted dialogue about Canada’s generative AI strategy with the Honourable Evan Solomon, Canada’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. As key voices in this important conversation, MLT Aikins Technology, IP and Privacy lawyers Danielle Graff and Nicolas Joubert were invited to be part…