Sexual assault on campuses: what to do?
By Sarah Cook, Georgia State University
Nearly 24 years ago, Time Magazine’s cover featured a photo of Katie Koestner, a first year student at the...
Let’s talk about sex: teaching teens to negotiate sexual intimacy
By Hayden Fletcher, University of Sydney and Spring Chenoa Cooper, University of Sydney
Talking about sex, intimacy and risk-taking with adolescents is not as easy...
Frequent trawling leads to skinnier fish
By Andrew Frederick Johnson, University of California, San Diego
Trawling – dragging heavy gear over ocean bottoms in search of fish near the sea floor...
Viking women travelled too, genetic study reveals
By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester
The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging their way along the coasts of...
Organic farming techniques are closing gap on conventional yields
By Lauren C. Ponisio, University of California, Berkeley
The unintended consequences of our agricultural food system – polluted air and water, dead zones in coastal...
Women suffer the myths of the hymen and the virginity test
By Sherria Ayuandini, Washington University in St Louis
The Indonesian public lambasted the Indonesian police after Human Rights Watch released a report that police conducted...
How we restored Harvard's Rothko murals – without touching them
By Narayan Khandekar, Harvard University
In 1989, I was a conservation student at the Courtauld Institute in London. During a class on varnish removal, my...
Don’t believe the hype – we are a long way from an HIV cure
By Timothy P Lahey, Dartmouth College
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown.
An HIV-positive...
