Researchers at TU Wien are developing a model that interprets opinions not as diametrically opposed poles, but as overlapping ...

Opinion polarization is often considered as the primary driver of social friction, leading to exhaustive efforts to force a consensus. However, new research suggests a more pragmatic goal: reducing ...

Flipping ferroelectric polarization reverses bimeron topology in a two-dimensional magnet, allowing voltage pulses alone to ...

Achieving record efficiency in perovskite solar cells, a new study demonstrates the role of solvent dynamics in optimizing film crystallization and stability.

What’s so bad about polarization? I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people who ...

Government scholars Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown both grew up in rural communities—and both were struck by how divided those small towns became. "Growing up, many of my family friends voted for ...

With no signs of improvement, political polarization in the United States has reached a point where deal-breakers in dating have increased and are now split along partisan lines, especially under ...

Spiral scanning creates six distinguishable polarization patterns in ferroelectric films, enabling data storage beyond binary ...

In his recent homily commemorating the beginning of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Pope Francis regretted the “polarization” of some Catholics in the wake of the Council. “How many times did they ...

About 10 years ago, political scientist James Adams saw something troubling. New polls asked Americans whether they agreed or disagreed that people in the opposing political party weren’t simply wrong ...