A Science Advances study analyzed U.S. media coverage of archaeology research and found that press releases posted to the EurekAlert! distribution service were 4 times more likely to receive U.S.

AMES, Iowa – New research offers compelling evidence that media violence affects aggressive behavior. This first-of-its-kind study, led by Craig Anderson, a Distinguished Professor of psychology at ...

High-profile news coverage that eLife papers generated in September 2025, including Asia Research News, IFL Science and the Times of India.

A recent study from the Rutgers School of Communication and Information found that the social media platform X is often used ...

In January, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, appeared at a congressional hearing to answer questions about how social media potentially harms children. Zuckerberg opened by ...

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large ...

Social media can be harmful. That's something all behavioral researchers can agree on. There is much less consensus on how exactly its harmful use is defined, and whether or not there’s a ...

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Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020 election were finally published. Two of these studies asked: Are we ...

A new study claims to have uncovered a disturbing trend in the world of academic research: AI tools like ChatGPT being used to produce fake scientific papers that are infiltrating Google Scholar, one ...