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From stone tools that prepared animal skins for humans to use as thermal insulation, to the advent of bone awls and eyed needles to create fitted and adorned clothing, Dr Ian Gilligan explores when we started to dress to impress. Clothing is understood as a significant component in shaping what makes us human. The emergence…

New app offers a glimpse into the future for climate in thousands of cities, towns and suburbs around the world What will the climate be like five, 10 or even 50 years from now? How hot will summers be? Will it snow in winter? What could be reversed by reducing emissions? If climate continues to…

Highlighting work stress to demonstrate professionalism and commitment will likely backfire, reveals new study We’ve all had a co-worker who constantly talked about how busy they were, from bringing up their overloaded schedule to the late hours they put in. Or maybe it hits too close to home? Stress bragging has become the new workplace…

A team of researchers combined various opinion polls from 34 European countries over 41 years The 2024 European elections – the world’s largest multi-country vote – saw the rise of nationalist and Eurosceptic parties. Going back a few years, there was Brexit and the debt crisis. How have these and other major events negatively impacted…

The team behind Stanford’s Our Voice citizen science research initiative explains the community-driven research practice being implemented in communities across the globe Scientific research isn’t just about laboratory work. With just a few quick photos or observations, anyone who is interested in working with others to improve their community can be a citizen scientist. Citizen…

Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who…

If you want fame, Cass Sunstein says, it typically requires some of both — and is no pure meritocracy The Beatles, William Shakespeare, or even Taylor Swift. The reason why these artists are so famous and admired surely must be because their talents are simply extraordinary and undeniable. Maybe … maybe not, says Harvard Law…