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In December 2022, inflation (not comprising food and energy) reached 5.4%: a record in the Eurozone. Pxhere, CC BY-SA

Inflation in the Eurozone: is it persisting or falling?

What will happen to the euro zone’s rising prices in 2023? Here’s an overview of the factors which might influence inflation’s acceleration or deceleration.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (R) light candles in the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints during their visit to the site of a mass grave in Bucha, April 2022. Sergei Supinsky/AFP

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is proof the EU needs to get better at stopping mass atrocities

The war’s one-year anniversary is eerily close to that of an EU report on the prevention of mass atrocities. Ten years later, its authors reflect on what the bloc could have done differently.
Damaged: war in Ukraine has caused a massive rise in PTSD, especially in young women and soldiers. The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images

Ukraine war: conflict-related PTSD is putting strain on an already underfunded mental health system

The war in Ukraine has traumatised many people, military and civilian. But the country’s health service was already ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues.
The medical school of Salerno as it appears in a miniature of Avicenna’s Canon. The image represents the legendary story of Robert, Duke of Normandy. Mortally wounded by an arrow, he was heroically saved by his wife who sucked out the poison as prescribed by the physicians of Salerno. Wikipedia

How the Middle Ages’ female doctors were consigned to oblivion

During the Middle Ages, women were steadily excluded from both the practice and the study of medicine by an overwhelmingly male-dominated, institutional and hierarchical system.
Artist’s rendition of a concentration of small black holes in the centre of the galaxy NGC 6397. ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann.

How could we detect atom-sized primordial black holes?

Black holes can have a mass equivalent to that of millions of suns. Other, smaller, black holes can combine the mass of Mount Everest into the size of an atom.

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