The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely.

You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing. That difference may help explain why ...

In Europe in the 1700s, coffeehouses were sources of coffee, but also conversation. As the MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle points out in her 2016 book, Reclaiming Conversation, many people went to ...

Fragmentation. Separation. Seclusion. The 21st century is defined by an unprecedented paradox. Humanity is more connected than ever before, yet individuals report historic levels of loneliness. At the ...

Publisher SEGA and developer Creative Assembly have officially announced horror first-person shooter sequel Alien: Isolation 2 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC (Steam). A release date ...

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have revealed what appears to be a teaser trailer for Alien: Isolation 2. A mysterious video titled "A False Sense of Security" was posted by the ...

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

A large US study using causal modeling shows that lowering social isolation, not just addressing loneliness, could play a key role in preserving cognitive health as people age. Study: Disentangling ...

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