I seldom spend so much time on the Economy prize in Nobels honor, but this year’s focus is so relevant that it's defintely worth digging deeper into! Have you stopped to wonder what really makes a country prosper in the long run? Is it natural resources? A powerful military? A stable currency? Well, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) just gave us a huge hint.

Nurses in the US provided biological samples for decades to help study women’s health. Here’s what they think of President Trump’s actions that may end its funding.

“All models are wrong,” said statistician George Box, “but some are useful.” The question we rarely ask is: useful for whom? In the story of biomedical science, few creatures have had a more significant, if unexamined, impact than the laboratory mouse. Small, genetically pliable, and cost-effective, mice have become our primary stand-ins for human biology. They have helped us understand the basics of cancer, immunity, and aging.

Voting. Beim S&B Award 2025 des Rudolf Sallinger Fonds treten zehn Teams mit forschungsbasierten Business-Ideen gegeneinander an. brutkasten vergibt einen Sonderpreis (5.000 Euro Mediavolumen), dessen...

How silent choices in attire reveal our deepest values — and sometimes, our greatest hypocrisies. We often underestimate the weight of what we wear.Yet throughout history, clothing has been a silent but potent statement at moments of joy, power, sadness, and respect.Clothes have been used to celebrate, to mourn, to mark authority, and to unify or exclude.They are as crucial to personal branding and team identity as flags are to nations — tools to signal belonging, distance, power, or humility.

April 24, 2025 A confession…my dental fascination I have a confession to make: as a teen I wanted to become a dentist. I’ve had the privilege of having exceptional dentists all my life,…

April 24, 2025 A confession...my dental fascination I have a confession to make: as a teen I wanted to become a dentist. I've had the privilege of having exceptional dentists all my life, and all of them were so passionate about what they did that they actually shared a lot of their knowledge with me. It ended with me doing practicals with them in high school, and even though my journey continued with other aspects of science, I always found the oral cavity super interesting, mainly because it is truly a complex jungle in there.

Reflections and Insights on Life, Society, and the World Around Us

Last week, pop icon Katy Perry and a handful of other celebrities were launched into orbit in what’s being hailed as a "landmark moment for commercial space travel." The headlines were ablaze with talk of sparkly suits, curated playlists, and designer zero-gravity fashion. But while the public relations machine spun this into a triumphant celebration of inclusion and progress, many of us are left with a deep sense of unease.

The other day I came across the news regarding a member of the Swedish royal family lending her name to promote a new skin care brand that as many others promise to be the most efficient and best skin care for your skin. In the world of skincare and beauty, promises are abundant—hydration, radiance, anti-aging, transformation. But what happens when these promises fall short?

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It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.