The Spanish criminal justice system imposes significantly longer prison sentences when the victim of a homicide is a woman. That is a conclusion of a study undertaken by a research team at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) which performed a systematic analysis of the sentences handed down by the Spanish Provincial Courts in cases involving homicide and attempted murder between 2018 and 2024.

Bumble, Tinder or Hinge – they’re the fast-paced, image-driven dating platforms millions rely on to find everything from love to a late-night fling. But new Adelaide University research suggests they may also be undermining how young adults see their bodies.

A recent study argues that a medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato from Greek into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship. The authors base their conclusion on their analysis and translation of a previously little-known treatise by Hunayn Ibn Ishaq written in a question-and-answer format. This treatise crowns ten other works by Hunayn regarded as landmarks in both Islamic and Western medical history. Hunayn, the authors maintain, offers detailed analyses of ocular anatomy, including the layers of the eye and the optic nerve, demonstrating advances that made lasting contributions to Arabic and Western medicine alike.