To make children better fact-checkers, expose them to more misinformation — with oversight

In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution:

Wildfire smoke exposure boost risk of mental illness in youth, study suggests

Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts risk of mental illness in youth a little more, according to a new University

Like humans, artificial minds can ‘learn by thinking’

Some of the greatest discoveries don’t come merely from observations but from thinking. Einstein developed theories about relativity through thought experiments, and Galileo derived insights about gravity through mental simulations.