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Columbia University and Yale University appear to be in a competition to see who will be the poster child for antisemitism, intimidation, and polemics trumping serious insight or discussion of world affairs. Historian Martin Kramer warned 14 years ago

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5–7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet ...

Public Release: 2-Apr-2018   New York University We'll pay more for unhealthy foods when we crave them, new neuroscience research finds. The study also shows that we're willing to pay disproportionately more for higher portion sizes of craved food items. The research, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),…

Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunity to conduct research into a subject of their own choice, without any thematic conditions.A total of

Washington and Lee University in Lexington will host its 18th annual Tom Wolfe Weekend on April 28-29 with author Amor Towles.

Some of Raquel Pacheco’s favorite childhood memories are of family trips to Mexico City. The relatives they visited there were deeply religious and, as

"...the Black Death was an important selective pressure to the evolution of the human immune system."

Architectural historian employs moderntools to defendGreek heritage

Bubonic plague, or the "Black Death" placed significantly selective pressure on humans, changing the frequency of certain immune-related genes and affecting our susceptibility to modern diseases.

The NIU Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy is thrilled to invite anyone interested to join us for a presentation by Dr. Diego Román as the key note speaker for our annual kick-off event.<br/><br/>Dr. Román’s research is located at the intersection of linguistics, science education, and environmental studies. Specifically, he investigates the implicit and explicit ideologies reflected in the design and implementation of bilingual and science education ...