Millions of words spoken in the UK’s highest court risk being misunderstood, misquoted or simply missed because transcribing them accurately is too difficult and too expensive, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.  

 In a new groundbreaking work published in Nature Communications,researchers found that an adverse social exposome, defined as the cumulative exposure to factors such as low education, adverse childhood experiences, food insecurity, financial stress and assets, low access to healthcare, and traumatic events, is linked to poorer cognition and mental health, reduced functional ability, and alterations in brain structure and function.

Side effects experienced when taking oral contraception may be affected by women’s expectations and beliefs about the pill, according to an exploratory study by psychologists.

If AI’s intrinsic risks are real, governmental regulation and ethical frameworks are unlikely to contain them. Drawing on social theory, it highlights myths about the state’s capacity, global enforcement challenges, rapid technological decentralization, and the ambiguity of moral norms. The author presents a skeptical view that “meaning well” does not ensure effective outcomes, cautioning against overreliance on governments and ethics to mitigate advanced AI risks.

Illegitimate tasks refer to duties perceived as unnecessary or unreasonable in relation to one’s professional role. When such tasks accumulate, employees often experience the situation as unfair. Illegitimate tasks are also regarded as stressors that undermine one’s autonomous, or internal, motivation. Conversely, employees who encounter fewer illegitimate tasks are more likely to feel that their work is meaningful or consistent with their values, according to a recent study exploring the associations of illegitimate tasks with work motivation.

When survivors of the October 7th attacks returned to what was left of their homes, many carried with them more than grief or post-traumatic stress. A new study shows that the trauma also fueled an unexpected surge in obsessive-compulsive disorder, offering the first direct evidence that acute trauma can trigger the disorder’s onset.