Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for sacrificial funerary rituals at the Early Iron Age burial mound of Tunnug 1 in Tuva, Siberia, indicating that the horse-riding Scythian culture, best-known from Eastern Europe, originated ...
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A team of archaeologists and historians at the University of Leicester used metabolites found in bones from people who lived hundreds of years ago to determine if they had been smokers. In their study published in the journal ...
Alfonso Benito Calvo, a geologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is part of the international team that has just published a paper in the journal Nature Communications about ...
Archaeology
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How do young children perceive what is fair and what is unfair, and how do they behave as a result? Three psychologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University ...
Social Sciences
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Investors' consideration of a firm's environmental performance, along with concerns about future impacts on profit, have led many firms to start trying to reduce their carbon footprint. But such environmental pressure—if ...
Economics & Business
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The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world—but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur has left a lasting legacy ...
Other
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A new study exploring the effects of international student mobility has found that foreign-educated graduates reduce extreme poverty in low and middle-income countries. The paper, published in the International Journal of ...
Economics & Business
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Efforts to redress global inequality are facing an unexpected adversary: the white savior. It's the idea that people of color, whether in the Global South or North, need "saving" by a white Western person or aid worker.
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Ever scrolled through Instagram or TikTok and felt a sudden rush to buy something before it's gone? You're not alone. A new study published in the Journal of Business Research, investigates how a "fear of missing out" (FOMO) ...
Economics & Business
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Just 100 years ago, most people had—at most—a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment—from our child's first step to a ...
Social Sciences
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