Did Dante’s Inferno predict an asteroid impact: Scientists study 700-year-old poem

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...
The Lancet

Leveraging implementation science to solve the big problems: a scoping review of health system preparations for the effects of pandemics and climate change

aCentre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia bObservatory on the Future of Healthcare, ...
Morning Star

What is (or was) ‘Western Marxism’?

MARX and Engels pioneered our understanding of the dynamics of human society and of the world in which we live. They ...

Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

Thoreau’s work as a pioneering physical scientist is almost invisible in popular culture, according to a geologist and ...

Q&A: The political calculus—and actual math—of gerrymandering

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as ...

Hantavirus scare revives COVID-era conspiracy theories

An outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship is reviving conspiracy theories about vaccines, alleged ...