the rumors that followed the Haiti earthquake in 2010.

the speculation that preceded the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012

“This is a really interesting and impressive study, and the results around how demonstrably untrue assertions spread faster and wider than demonstrable true ones do, within the sample, seem very robust, consistent, and well supported,” Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, a professor of political communication at the University of Oxford, said in an email.

“We must redesign our information ecosystem in the 21st century,” write a group of 16 political scientists and legal scholars in an essay also published Thursday in Science.

according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published Thursday in Science

Christianity (Roman Catholic)

manta rays and scorpion fish