As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, a new mathematical model could offer insights…
Passport to Improved Health for Military Veterans
A healthcare ‘passport’ to access NHS and other wellbeing services has been beneficial for the mental health of veterans and provides them with a sense of identity, according to research published in…
New Evidence That Climate Disasters Increase Risks of Armed Conflicts
The risk for violent clashes increases after weather extremes such as droughts or floods hit people in vulnerable countries, an international team of scientists finds. Vulnerable countries are characterized by a large…
Aboriginal Scars from Frontier Wars
Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant burden of responsibility for law and order for white settlers in Queensland and other settlements. A long-running…
How Chinese People Came Together When Separated by Quarantine, Creating Hope, Humor and Art
Fear and blame appear to be fast becoming Americans’ defining emotions around COVID-19. Headlines seem to offer either worst-case estimates or government leaders’ mutual accusations. Amid the bewildering figures and contradictory political…
Even a Limited India-Pakistan Nuclear War Would Bring Global Famine
The concept of nuclear winter–a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated by nuclear bombs–has been around for decades. But such speculations have been based largely on back-of-the-envelope calculations involving…
