When the Environment Matters More Than Genes
More and more people are developing autoimmune diseases, and the reason isn’t a sudden mutation or a hereditary predisposition that…
Smart Circular Economy: How Digital Tech Is Reinventing Industrial Business Models
A new study by Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria explores how companies are using smart, connected technologies to push…
Hanging handkerchiefs, opening doors, enjoying volunteering
International Volunteer Day When I was little, in the small town of my roots, the first thing I did on…
Mudslinging journalism and the rise of Nazism
In the 1928 elections in Germany, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won 29.8% of the vote, the Communist Party (KPD)…
Bridging Two Worlds: Empowering Older Adults with Disabilities
International Day of Persons with Disabilities December 3rd marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities—a moment to reflect not…
Uncovering the Health Risks Behind Tattoos
New scientific research is opening an important conversation about the possible long-term health effects of tattoos, specifically their relationship with…
Nanobodies – Smart Mini Antibodies that can Protect the Brain from HIV and Substance Use
HIV enters the central nervous system (CNS) early in infection and hides in infected brain cells that are very difficult…
Lenacapavir: the most promising HIV prevention technology in the last three decades
World AIDS Day In June 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lenacapavir (Yeztugo), the first and only…
Immediate mother–infant contact is now considered essential clinical care
After decades of accumulating evidence, it is now “no longer ethical” to withhold skin-to-skin contact from healthy newborns in future…
Ethical envy when support is not given
Ethical envy is a concept developed in the book The Dialogic Society (2022). This term helps us understand many of…