Criminalizing and prosecuting torture could deter practices such as solitary confinement in detention
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Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2023
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A trio of researchers, two from Queen Mary University of London, the other from the University of Tehran, has found evidence that suggests insects might be able to feel pain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
A team led by UTSW researchers has identified a molecule produced by male parasitic worms called schistosomes that prompts sexual maturity in females of these species. The findings, reported in Cell, help answer a century-old ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 6, 2022
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Otis was our bighearted bloodhound, whom we loved dearly. He had an active life playing with our three other dogs and going for long walks every morning and evening with us. But when he was eight years old, his lifestyle ...
Veterinary medicine
Mar 16, 2022
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When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers would hit us. It was called getting the cane, the cane being a long, flexible stick. This tradition, exported from a Dickensian ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2021
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What if there was a way for pain patients to get all the pain-relieving power of opioids with none of the addicting side effects?
Biochemistry
Jul 19, 2021
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A study examining Japanese schools' hands-off approach when children fight showed it could create opportunities for autonomy and encourage ownership of solutions, suggesting a new strategy in handling kids squabbles in other ...
Education
May 28, 2021
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Preliminary findings from world-first research reveal the impact of a guide dog extends far beyond its ability to guide its handler.
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2017
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The human brain processes the experience of empathy – the ability to understand another person's pain – in a similar way to the experience of physical pain. This was the finding of a paper that specifically investigated ...
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2015
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Abdominal pain, fever, diarrhoea—these symptoms could point to an infection with the bacterium Yersinia. The bacterium's pathogenic potential is based on a syringe-like injection apparatus called injectisome. For the first ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 31, 2013
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