Despite dire warnings, a stockpile of ready compounds to fight viral pandemics was sorely lacking. Can drug-makers finally do the right thing? By Elie Dolgin The year 2003 was an ominous one for emerging infectious diseases. A pair of deadly influenza strains had leapt from birds to humans in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. And […]
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Studies explore how gun injuries lead to billions of dollars in hospital costs and lost work time every year in America. By Clark Merrefield Mass shootings in the U.S. often attract national media coverage. They’re horrific, they upend the lives of numerous victims and families, and they’ve become increasingly common over the past two decades. […]
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The study considered the tens of thousands of objects in orbit. As space gets more crowded, the magnitude of this effect will only be more, not less. By Joshua Sokol There appears to be nowhere left on Earth where astronomers can view the stars without light pollution from space junk and satellites, according to a […]
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He died more than 400 years ago but Shakespeare’s plays and poetry are still being performed, interpreted and understood in new ways. Academics at Newcastle University are investigating how Shakespeare is used globally to address issues and concerns including colonialism and the #MeToo movement. New perspectives on Shakespeare Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost Professor Julie Sanders’s […]
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Research shows giving by the super-wealthy in the United States and United Kingdom increases the sway of donors in society, education and politics. Giving at scale by the super-wealthy has done little to redistribute wealth from rich to poor, helping perpetuate social inequalities rather than remedying them, while paying considerable dividends to donors in the […]
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Playing with ultra-thin dolls could make young girls want a thinner body, according to new research The small-scale study, involving Newcastle University, shows that ultra-thin dolls may negatively affect body image in girls as young as five years old. The researchers warn that the dolls, combined with exposure to ‘thin ideals’ in films, on TV […]
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Babies born after March 11 2020 will have only known a world in the grip of a pandemic. They may never have met anyone who isn’t their parent, or they may only ever have seen their grandparents from a distance. They certainly will not have had the same opportunities to interact with other children as […]
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Scientists are monitoring pets, livestock and wildlife to work out where SARS-CoV-2 could hide, and whether it could resurge By Smriti Mallapati It was the news Sophie Gryseels had been dreading for months. Almost a year into the pandemic, a seemingly healthy wild mink tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Utah. No free-roaming animal was known […]
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