We all know that polarization is on the rise in the United States. But to know why, we need to know what’s normal. Polarization has always been with us. A set of basic psychological and sociological ...

A recent study provides a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms driving polarization and issue alignment on Twitter/X and reveals how political polarization in Germany is reinforced and structured ...

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250249. With the rapid advancement of network communication technologies, significant breakthroughs have been achieved ...

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

Based on a suitable band structure, the synergistic effect of oxygen vacancy defects and an electromagnetic field facilitates electron transfer. This process thereby achieves broadband absorption ...