Pi Day is celebrated around the world on the fourteenth day of the third month (3/14). The date representation of 3.14 is the most basic ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
In February 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House seeking continued military and economic support for his embattled country from the incoming second Trump administration.…
In this highlight of the month series, Professor Amaya Bustinduy highlights three papers: Lemin et al., Neufeld et al. and Smith et al.…
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Volker Presser, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
As global public health agendas and sustainability goals continue to evolve, nutrition science is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of human health, contributing to the prevention of chronic disease and the promotion of healthy ageing.…
The bones of terrestrial vertebrates are often found in riverine sediments. However, this doesn’t always mean they were living nearby. The sheer nature of fluvial sediments means there is often a spectrum of distances travelled from origin to final deposition, especially when it comes to the interaction of bones with fluid flow.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
The 2014 killing by police of unarmed African American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri ignited the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off the coast of Israel, around 4000 km away.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for January is ‘Associations of mental disorders in children with parents’ subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark‘.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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