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Australians filed over 80,000 reports of online child sexual abuse last financial year, more than double the 36,600 reports in 2021

“Sex sells” has been a mantra in marketing for decades. As researchers who study consumer behavior, we’ve seen plenty of evidence to support it: Attractive models and spokespeople have been shown to reliably grab attention, boost clicks and make products…

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.

“If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago.”

Five lucky winners will be announced Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on Space.com’s Facebook, Twitter, and BlueSky pages.

A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind of “social glue” and plays…

A study published in Economics Letters has found that first-year female college students are experiencing slower academic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic compared to males.

The law is failing victims and survivors because it is turning a blind eye to the long-lasting and severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, a new study warns.

Exercising self-control is about more than simply maintaining a willpower of iron and an eye toward the greater good, a new Yale study finds; it’s really a delicate dance full of waffling deliberation.

A study in the journal Marketing Science finds that prepopulating e-commerce search bars with trending or personalized keywords can meaningfully increase both purchasing and consumer spending. The research provides the first causal evidence on how subtle search bar design choices…