In light of Saturday's assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, KETV NewsWatch 7 spoke with political science professors about how we reached our current political climate. In light of ...

Polarization in the U.S. didn’t rise gradually. A new machine-learning study shows it surged after 2008- but why?

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

Top: Gray circles show the survey-based polarization measure over time; the red crosses represent the model prediction. Bottom: Estimated average number of close friends by country and survey. The ...

Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The new devices enable ...

Between 2008 and 2010, polarization in society increased dramatically alongside a significant shift in social behavior: the number of close social contacts rose from an average of two to four or five ...