Social Sciences

New measures needed to help protect children, and improve education about their experiences of porn online

Amazon rainforest

Study identifies global ecosystems most sensitive to changes in climate

‘Fear of divine retribution led to dramatic expansion of human societies’

Report finds mismatch between the regulation governing distribution of offline pornography and its online equivalent.

Preventing children from accessing online pornography

Details from portable shrine of Vishnu as Venkateshwara. Credit: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Fear of divine retribution linked to spread of human civilisations

Schoolgirls in Zimbabwe

How best to tackle the stigma of menstruation?

Study asks how best to tackle the stigma of menstruation

Caribbean men found to spend most time doing household chores in UK study.

Who does most of the housework in multicultural Britain?

Flooding

Man-made climate change helped cause south of England floods, say scientists

The UK petition for Donald Trump to be barred from the UK rapidly succeeded: being signed by more than 500,000 in just days.

Predicting political surprises and uprisings before they happen

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