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Social Sciences Nov 3, 2023

Modern medicine's Middle Ages roots—how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. "The Saturday Night Live" sketch "Medieval Barber Theodoric of York" says it all with its portrayal ...

Economics & Business Oct 31, 2023

Global agendas such as SDGs serve to legitimize international organizations' existence, researcher argues

In a new ground-breaking book, a King's researcher argues that the global education agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as self-serving agendas for international organizations (IOs) such as the ...

Economics & Business Oct 16, 2023

UK needs AI legislation to create trust so companies can 'plug AI into British economy': Report

The British government should offer tax breaks for businesses developing AI-powered products and services, or applying AI to their existing operations, to "unlock the UK's potential for augmented productivity," according ...

Planetary Sciences Oct 12, 2023

Five things to know about NASA's mission to a metal world

For the first time ever, a NASA probe is journeying to an object composed not of rock, ice, or gas, but metal: the asteroid Psyche.

Social Sciences Oct 9, 2023

Why do so few women take on scientific careers?

There were around 8 billion human beings in 2022, 50% of them women. Although there are as many women as men, the former continue to be underrepresented in science.

Social Sciences Sep 5, 2023

Socio-emotional learning (SEL) found to reduce hyperactivity and improve sociability of Brazilian children

Socio-emotional development is a versatile skill that should be encouraged from early childhood, given that it facilitates learning and also professional and personal relationships. In the Brazilian and Latin American curriculum, ...

Social Sciences Sep 5, 2023

How modern warfare turns neighborhoods into battlefields

It has been almost 12 years since I left my city. And I have never been able to return. Homs, the place I was born and grew up, has been destroyed and I, like many others, have been left in exile: left to remember how beautiful ...

General Physics Sep 4, 2023

Physicists solve mysteries of microtubule movers

Active matter is any collection of materials or systems composed of individual units that can move on their own, thanks to self-propulsion or autonomous motion. They can be of any size—think clouds of bacteria in a petri ...

Social Sciences Sep 1, 2023

Opinion: White men have controlled women's reproductive rights throughout US history and post-Dobbs era is no different

More than a year after the Supreme Court ended federal protection for abortion rights in the United States, disagreements over abortion bans continue to reverberate around the country. Candidates sparred over the idea of ...

Social Sciences Aug 24, 2023

Slavery stole Africans' ideas as well as their bodies: Reparations should reflect this, say researchers

In a speech to mark Unesco's campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created ...

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