After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling…
Criminalization April 2023 The new report from the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law and Rights4Girls is a follow-up to our 2015 publication, The Sexual Abuse to…
The Russian government talks all the time about the colonialism of IP in other countries but has never said that the IP of the North, Siberia and the Far East…
Archaeologists in northern China uncovered a Tang dynasty tomb with well-preserved murals depicting daily life and a Sogdian trader. Archaeologists in northern China have uncovered an ancient Tang dynasty tomb (A.D. 618-907)…
The final lick of paint was barely dry on the newly built, white-tiled Al-Hasanat home when the war in Gaza erupted in October. For three-year-old Ayten, the apartment in central Gaza was a source…
The 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act has garnered little fanfare. Only a handful of news articles and events have commemorated the centennial of the law giving U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Perhaps that’s unsurprising.…
A recent study published in PLOS Medicine has found that heatwaves are linked to more than 150,000 deaths per year in 43 countries across five continents. Lead author Yuming Guo…
By Katherine E. McKinney, Scott D. Sagan, Allen S. Weiner | July 1, 2020 In his first radio address after the bombing of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman claimed that…
By Richard Rhodes | August 6, 2020 Since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, 75 years ago this August, people concerned with the danger of large-scale nuclear war…
Among patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for major depression, those who experienced longer therapeutic seizures had higher odds of depression remission, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Compared with patients whose…