How Do We End Wars? A Peace Researcher Puts Forward Some Innovative Approaches

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March 18, 2022

Sociology How Do We End Wars? A Peace Researcher Puts Forward Some Innovative Approaches Young people and women need to be more involved in a continual process of averting armed conflict By Theodor Schaarschmidt

Epidemiology Are 'COVID Toes' Actually Caused by the Coronavirus? Study adds to evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection doesn't cause an inflamed-toe condition called chilblains, but it doesn't close the door By Cassandra Willyard,Nature magazine

Natural Disasters Starlink Offers Internet Access in Times of Crisis, but Is It Just a PR Stunt? There are no individual saviors for Tonga's Internet infrastructure By Robin George Andrews

Defense How Investigators Use Online Evidence to Expose Possible War Crimes Researchers at the investigative collective Bellingcat scoured the Internet to verify the brutal use of cluster munitions in Ukraine By Janosch Deeg

Space Exploration COVID Disrupted Everything--Even Rocket Launches Surprising supply chain breakdowns By Tory Bruno

Sleep Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent? Let's Sleep on It Scientists are less enthusiastic than the U.S. Senate about DST year-round By Randyn Charles Bartholomew

Politics A Small Cut in World Military Spending Could Help Fund Climate, Health and Poverty Solutions International cooperation could stem and redirect some of the $2 trillion the world wastes each year in the global arms race By Carlo Rovelli,Matteo Smerlak

Politics How the Pandemic Remade Science Journalism It's no longer possible to separate science and politics By Tanya Lewis

Anatomy Where Are Genitals Represented in the Brain? The homunculus of textbook fame still does not take into account the relevant locations in the cerebral cortex that process touch for the sex organs By Dana G. Smith

Public Health What Humanity Should Eat to Stay Healthy and Save the Planet What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 4

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Diplomacy, in terms of prevention, failed in the run-up to the war in Ukraine." Thania Paffenholz, international relations expert

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