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Can engaging in the arts slow ageing, as a recent study suggested?
Visiting galleries might enrich your life, but the evidence that it slows your ageing is less certain than recent headlines suggest.
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How Tree Communities Shape the Underground Functioning of European Forests
The Conversation – By Ludovic Henneron, Lecturer in Ecology, University of Rouen Normandy Better understanding how energy flows through the underground trophic network of forest ecosystems depending on the surrounding...
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Five questions over Nigel Farage’s £5 million donation
Should voters – and Reform UK – be worried about the size of the gift?
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Competition in generative intelligence is not a classic market war
The Conversation – France (in French) – By Mokhtar Bouzouina, Doctor of Management Sciences, University Paris Nanterre Since the media coverage of ChatGPT, announcements regarding artificial intelligence have multiplied, with...
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Where will money for the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ come from? This man has been warning of Judgment Fund abuse for years
The Judgment Fund’s likely use as a slush fund to pay Trump allies comes after more than a decade of repeated warnings by one scholar that the pot of taxpayer...
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The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat
Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
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SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact
SpaceX is poised to test its latest, most powerful rocket and to become a publicly traded company, all while under pressure from environmentalists.
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Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce
The US lacks the capacity to treat long COVID, and HHS defunding is taking the country further away from being able to handle the country’s growing number of long COVID...
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The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate
Calls for the Supreme Court to give fossil fuel companies immunity from liability for climate-related damage misreads the Constitution, precedent and the role of courts.
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Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what’s really going on
The responsibility for policing nonprofits generally falls to state attorneys general, rather than federal authorities.