When Social Pressure Silences Personal Dreams
Social pressure can have a deeply destructive impact on people’s life trajectories, affecting not only teenagers but also children and…
Smart Shelf Strategies Can Help Stores Sell More and Waste Less
International Day of Zero Waste According to this year’s theme, it is important to reflect on our food consumption (what…
Turning Walls into Power: How Buildings Could Help Fight Climate Change
A recent study published in Nature Climate Change explores how adding solar panels to the outside walls of buildings could…
The Importance of Oral Hygiene from an Early Age
On many occasions, the promotion of oral health care is limited to campaigns in schools. It would be very interesting…
Hanafi’s sociology fills auditoriums
They even had to improvise new rows of seats in the auditorium. Diverse people told me it was unbelievable, because…
Postpartum: What Might Happen
Motherhood is often portrayed as a time of joy and fulfillment. However, for many women the postpartum period can also…
Mapping the Future: A New Blueprint for Understanding Down Syndrome
For over 60 years, science has known the “what” of Down syndrome: an extra copy of chromosome 21. It is…
Ending Tuberculosis Is Achievable — If We Act Now
Global targets under the End TB Strategy of the World Health Organization have not been met — not only because…
Why do we have a “standing pandemic”?
Let’s give TB the attention it deserves, especially now. Why now? Three reasons.
Our DNA holds part of the key to endometriosis
Endometriosis is a debilitating complex disease where endometrial-like cells grow on organs outside of the uterus and which has been…