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Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?

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By David Adam 
| Nature
When psychologist Raluca Rilla asked volunteers to complete a survey last year, she got the following response to one of her questions: “I don’t experience confusion in the same way humans do.” Rilla, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, suspects that this is the obvious tip of a large and worrying iceberg — one that could scupper academic research on how people think and behave.
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How long can humans live? We simply don’t know

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By David Adam 
| Nature
Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science Saul Justin Newman MIT Press (2026) How old can a human live to be — and for how long can they be expected to live in good health? Average lifespans have increased over the past century thanks to improved nutrition and advances in medical science. As a result, these questions have increasingly exercised demographers and researchers studying ageing.
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Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says

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By David Adam 
| Nature
A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating wooden helmet. Outside influences, he said, were “the greatest difficulty that the human mind has to contend with”. Gernsback’s isolator device — part diving suit, part monastic cell — did help him to work, he said, but it came with a risk of suffocation. He later installed an air supply.
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