New York is joining the fight against fake news. Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled the state’s first “Media Literacy” toolkit to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them.

This leads to long delays in graduation rates, which creates a bottleneck effect: students remain stuck in the system for years, clogging the flow of new researchers entering academia. Read more ...

Even in cases where funding is available, it's often linked to short-term projects or grants that don't allow students to finish their research without interruption. This leads to long delays in ...

A billionaire couple was accused of withholding water that could help stop Los Angeles’ massive wildfires. Democratic leadership was blamed for fire hydrants running dry and for an empty reservoir.

Studies have shown that Black Americans are more likely to suffer lasting effects of natural disasters that impact ... she is seeing in the wake of these disasters has been the spread of ...

called the misinformation “irresponsible" and said it affects the actions people take and the way they cope with trauma. “The spread of false information at a time of crisis is nothing short ...

As misinformation proliferates on social media ... with potentially devastating effects on the platforms’ most vulnerable users. This could have serious consequences in those low- and middle ...

New data from the Hawaiʻi Department of Health show the number of students in the islands not ... State health officials say the volume of misinformation about vaccines continues to grow and ...