Una nueva investigación sugiere que la violencia derivada de la creciente competencia entre organizaciones criminales está vinculada con un aumento en los riesgos que enfrentan los migrantes en la frontera norte.
As the U.S. government turns its attention to drug cartels in Mexico, new research suggests that violent competition among criminal organizations increases the risks migrants face at the northern border.
Why do beliefs in pseudoscience, supernatural entities and conspiracy theories thrive even when they seem implausible or lack evidence? Often, such extraordinary beliefs are explained as byproducts of cognitive biases that make the belief compelling and/or by social dynamics, like the pressure to fit in with a group. But new research from UC Davis suggests that a third factor is just as important: experience.
The booming growth of AI chatbots is similar to the trajectory of how social media radically changed our everyday lives, except with supercharged adoption rates and expectations. Some key lessons we are still learning from social media’s rise offer insight on how to avoid the same mistakes with AI.
Cuts to the federal food assistance program SNAP were part of a $1.1 trillion overall cut in the federal budget bill signed into law this summer. The bill’s overall changes to SNAP, including a requirement that some states pay a share of benefit costs for the first time, could lead to more families going hungry.
A visit to Muir Woods National Monument prompts a reflection on the current attacks on public history and Keith David Watenpaugh's past as a National Park Ranger.
Feeling happy is good for everyone’s health, but sharing everyday happiness with a life partner brings even greater health benefits, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.
Why are so many of us afraid of snakes? And more curiously, why does our unconscious mind recognize them as a threat before our conscious mind? Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology Lynne A. Isbell dives into how our relationship with snakes is an ancient one that reaches back to the evolutionary origins of primates.
New research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that increasing representation from historically disadvantaged groups in local governments in India improved infant mortality, mother’s pre-natal doctor’s visits and tetanus vaccinations.
Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor’s recent book details how auctions created the foundations for our modern economic system as it made and unmade people and communities by collectively setting a price on anything for sale.
