By Amnesty International
Responding to the detention of two Chinese Protestant church leaders and the interrogation by police of multiple members of the congregation during a service on Sunday, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “The detention of church leaders from the Early Rain Covenant Church is the latest example of the Chinese government’s efforts to […] The post China: Detention of church leaders signals intensifying attacks on religious freedom appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on August 23, 2020. © 2020 Andre Penner/AP Photo (São Paulo) – Brazilian judicial authorities in two important recent rulings, affirmed the rights of small landholders and Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and called on federal authorities to remove illegal occupants, a major driver of illegal deforestation in the region, Human Rights Watch said today. The decisions condemn federal authorities for their delays in taking steps to remove land…
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By Susanne Durhuus-Andersen, Senior Clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen
Nuno Vibe Hermann, Dentist and Associate Professor in the Department of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen
Your child’s small, delicate, chalk-white baby teeth fall out. In their place grow yellowish-brown, fragile teeth – much to everyone’s surprise.
This is the dental condition molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH), a condition that is almost as common as tooth decay, though hardly known about outside of dentistry – and even then it can often be misdiagnosed.
The condition affects how certain adult teeth form in early childhood. It isn’t caused by lack…
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By Moncef Krarti, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits with far less cost and go with renters when they move.
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By W. Ian O'Byrne, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, College of Charleston
AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.
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By Wayne Fu, Associate Professor of Decision Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn
The “right to repair” movement is gaining steam as consumers push corporations to offer them more freedom to fix products – from cars to dishwashers to toys.
In April 2026, farm equipment maker Deere & Co. inked a US$99 million settlement in a class…
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By Julia Gaffield, Professor of History, William & Mary
The move is part of a longer history of obscuring and demonizing the Haitian Revolution and its leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
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By Ky Merkley, Senior IT Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nick Winters, Assistant Professor of Classics, Northwestern University
There is evidence of people who crossed gender boundaries even in ancient civilizations, though the terms naming them have evolved over time.
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By Mirae Kim, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
The White House says the changes it seeks would strengthen transparency, accountability and oversight. Critics say federal grantmaking would become too political.
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By Shawn Laatsch, Director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center, University of Maine
As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth’s thin atmosphere.
Occasionally, however, the rest of the universe reminds…
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