By Lori Frasier, Professor of Pediatrics, Penn State
Up to 25% of infants diagnosed with abusive head trauma – otherwise known as shaken baby syndrome – die, and a substantial percentage who survive are left with long-term disabilities.
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By Daniel Pastula, Professor of Neurology, Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
A medical epidemiologist explains who should consider getting a booster and whether you might need to check your antibody levels.
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By Eli Elster, Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.
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By Ignacio López-Goñi, Catedrático de Microbiología. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología (SEM), Universidad de Navarra
On March 11 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. According to official data there have been more than 770 million cases of COVID, which have caused over 7 million deaths in 231 countries – almost 2.2 million of them in Europe. Other reports…
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By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Facing legal and political pressure at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to resume airstrikes has encouraged right-wing allies back into the fold.
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By Harrison J. Ostridge, Scientist, UCL Genetics Institute, UCL
Aida Andres, Professor of Population and Evolutionary Genomics, UCL
Mimi Arandjelovic, Staff Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the adaptations may protect against malaria.
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By Tracy-Lynn Field, Professor of Environmental and Sustainability Law, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa’s government has a new plan to license water providers and revoke the licences if they don’t deliver clean, drinkable water.
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By Simon Hoyte, Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Extreme Citizen Science Research Group (ExCiteS), UCL
The Congo Basin’s hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest.
While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix Mangombe up the small, winding path into their forest in Cameroon, jumping over highways of vicious black ants, shadowed by grand trees. We almost always encountered monkeys chattering when venturing down this path. Once we came across the prints of a gorilla.
This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka hunter-gatherers,…
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By Suzy White, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the excavation site of Sime del Elefante, near Burgos in Spain.
Known as ATE7-1, the new fossil consists of a partial face belonging to an ancient hominin, a biological classification that includes living humans and our closest extinct relatives, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus. Nicknamed “Rosa” after…
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By James Morrison, Associate Professor in Journalism Studies, University of Stirling
Ministers say it’s their ‘moral duty’ to encourage sick and disabled people to work. But is this ‘morality’ driven by genuine compassion or cost-cutting?
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