How our unconscious memory keeps us functioning efficiently in our daily lives
Although we aren’t consciously aware of our ‘automatic memory,’ it influences almost all of our thoughts, behaviour and ...
U.S. tariff threats could fuel maple syrup fraud, but AI could help navigate this sticky situation
Using AI and maple syrup fingerprints can detect maple syrup fraud, ensuring consumers receive safe, high-quality foods while ...
At a pivotal meeting, the world is set to decide how to cut shipping emissions
The more hotly debated issue is around a fiendishly complicated set of “mid-term measures”. A key part of this is creating a ...
Scientists should try to repeat more studies, but not those looking for a link between vaccines with autism
This is a worrying waste of effort, given the extensive evidence showing that there is no link between vaccines and autism, ...
Children from poorer families do worse at school – here’s how to understand the disadvantage gap
Pupils from poorer backgrounds – those eligible for free school meals – made less progress in their schooling than their ...
Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here
A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...
Peru is losing its battle against organised crime
According to an indictment by Peru’s public prosecutor’s office, Álvarez extorted, threatened and ordered the assassination ...
Scientists should try to repeat more studies, but not those linking vaccines with autism
This is a worrying waste of effort, given the extensive evidence showing that there is no link between vaccines and autism, ...
The radical European peasant movements that formed populist parties and breakaway republics
In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...
Drinking pee to improve health is an ancient practice – but the risks outweigh the evidence
Urophagia, also known as urine therapy, is the practice of drinking urine. Here’s why the social media health trend is promoted by influencers – but not by doctors.
Le rôle du cinéma dans la mémoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de « la Bataille du rail » à « la Grande Vadrouille
De « la Bataille du Rail » à « la Grande Vadrouille », du « Silence de la mer » au « Vieil Homme et l’enfant », le cinéma a contribué à forger une mémoire visuelle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Blanchisseuses, putains ou nonnes : les femmes dans l’Avignon des papes au Moyen Âge
Quelle place avaient les femmes à la cour papale, au Moyen Âge ? Une étude historiographique montre que si elles n’étaient pas des figures de pouvoir, elles étaient indispensables au quotidien de la c ...