Beliefs and practices about music's ability to heal the mind, body, and spirit date back to the Upper Paleolithic period, about 20,000 years ago. Music was widely used by shamans...
Graphical abstract. Credit: Water Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122029 Researchers at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) and ICC Water & Health have developed a new, integrative methodology that...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The climate crisis stands as the most pressing challenge of our generation, yet effective legal responses remain elusive. Political polarization and the influence of special interest...
In 2025, a small, indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for the first time in 80 years. Their return will drive a movement...
According to Bodoque, we need to improve flood-risk mapping too. There is a need to characterize vulnerability holistically, which implies considering the social, economic, physical, institutional, and cultural dimensions of...
Every year, I promise myself I’m not going to eat myself into a food coma: I’ll eat responsibly, front-load my belly with salad, and go light on the turkey and...
More than 2 million years ago, a mutation reduced the power of the chewing muscles in human ancestors. That may indicate they were doing more food preparation, but also possibly...
If you double the radius of a balloon, you increase the volume by a factor of eight (since volume is proportional to the radius cubed). But what about the material...
“I remember in Geneva, two months ago, we said, ‘Pay attention, because on this specific week there is a risk of shortage if there is any problem with one of...
We humans may be the only species that is aware of our mortality. We are obsessed with how to postpone the inevitable and, failing that, how to make the most...