Society

Carlotta Rigotti, post-doc researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Professor Clare McGlynn, Durham University, have co-authored a new article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, introducing the concept of meta-rape and […]

It’s telling that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to fire bureaucrats. In its view, bureaucrats stand for everything that’s wrong with the United States: overregulation, inefficiency and even the nation’s deficit, since they draw […]

Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, red and orange are typically associated with words such as “hot” or “warm,” blue with “cool” or “cold,” […]

In this age of artificial intelligence, data tampering and genetic manipulation, it seems that the nature of fraud and deception in competitive sport is becoming increasingly sophisticated. So, it seems almost surprising to see cheating […]

If you’ve ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Netflix’s hit drama, Adolescence, has reignited debates about the impact of the manosphere and violence against women.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Four in five women surveyed in Northern Ireland said their first experience of sexist behavior or harassment by men happened when they were children, according to a new study.This article is brought to you by […]

The story goes that the late billionaire Australian media magnate Kerry Packer once visited a Las Vegas casino, where a Texan was bragging about his ranch and how many millions it was worth.This article is […]

People’s perceptions of magic tricks and why they are effective are often in direct contrast to how magicians feel their performances are being received by their audiences, new research has suggested.This article is brought to […]

Most young people from Black and racial minoritized communities surveyed about their social media use said they saw racist content at least once a week, a new report says.This article is brought to you by […]