Arts/Culture

New essay collection explores the ways Jordan's Peele's 2017 film "Get Out" "revolutionizes the gothic and horror tradition at the same time that it unmasks the particular politics of race in the early twenty-first-century United…

Credit: Maike Glöckner / MLU Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more than 1,000 years ago. This has been indicated by new analyses done on an almost complete cat skeleton…

Released on the 800th anniversary of the creation of Saint Thomas Becket's shrine, stunning CGI reconstruction uses new evidence to show how it would have likely appearedCredit: John Jenkins The shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, the…

Credit: Dimitris Xygalatas With graduation ceremonies, weddings, funeral, annual parades, and many other gatherings called off, it is apparent that our lives are filled with rituals. UConn Assistant Professor of…

How re­search and col­lab­o­ra­tion have re­sulted in the new Finnish model The Government of Finland allocates 10 million euros in 2020 and 14.5 million euros per year from 2021 onwards to implement the Finnish model on free…

Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayal Credit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group in Uganda, are not incredibly selfish and mean as portrayed in a 1972 book by a prominent…

Innovative practical elements are at the core of a new doctoral training program on Roman inscriptions; network of eight European partners selected in EU evaluation processCredit: photo/©: P. Kruschwitz Johannes Gutenberg…

We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was celebrating our bicentennial, and launched while Singapore is battling COVID-19, one of the…

DNA science may help restore, preserve historic works, unmask counterfeits; The trait elite baseball hitters share with Leonardo da Vinci: A 'quick eye' with higher 'frames per second' -- a function of training, genetics, or both?Credit:…

According to the Danish Act on Listed Buildings, listed buildings must reflect Danish housing and working conditions throughout history. An extensive study conducted by, among others, a UCPH researcher, demonstrates that since 1945, the…

New archaeological research demonstrates earliest projectile technology in the tropical rainforests of Sri LankaCredit: Langley et al., 2020 The origins of human innovation have traditionally been sought in the grasslands…

Architectural professor describes urban resilience as a critical study of developmentCredit: Eunice Seng How then does one write the spatial history of a city that is so intensely still in the making? How does one critically…

Credit: © Francesco d'Errico and Luc Doyon Carved from burnt bone, this miniature bird statuette is the oldest known Chinese work of art, according to an international team involving the CNRS, the universities of Bordeaux (France),…

New study reveals multiple waves of settlement and connections to the American mainlandCredit: Kathrin Nägele The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans. Now, a new study published in…

Blockchain technology underpins cryptocurrency, and is being used for rights and royalties management for numerous industries. It could help book publishers stay afloat. As Australian book publishers grapple with global disruption, digital…

Archaeogenomic analysis of Anatolia, Northern Levant and the Southern Caucasus sheds light on population dynamics from the Neolithic to Bronze Age, as peoples transitioned from farming to pastoralist communities and early state-level…

News from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from Newcastle University London, Fordham University, and University of Minho published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how some brands create "sticky" customer journeys…

A complete reset of Australia's tourism industry is necessary to ensure its future success, according to global tourism expert, Professor Marianna Sigala at the University of South Australia. As debates continue about how and when to…

Traditional owners help with rare discoveryCredit: Flinders University Australian archaeologists have discovered some of the most detailed examples of rare, small-scale rock art in the form of miniature stencils in a rockshelter…

According to a study of the biological foundations of music conducted in a mouse model by Alexandre Celma-Miralles, a researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark, and Juan Manuel Toro, ICREA research professor at the Center for Brain and…