Appalachian History A border county on the Cumberland In the summer of 1863, Williamsburg was a small courthouse town on the Cumberland River, better known as Whitley Court House than as a battlefield. Whitley County itself was relatively young, carved from Knox County in 1818 with Williamsburg planted at the center as the county seat. The county sat in a dangerous place. Its southern edge touched the Tennessee line.

Remarks about implementation science for planetary health by Reda Sadki, Executive Director, The Geneva Learning Foundation at the Centre for Planetary Health’s research corner meeting, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on December 17, 2025 Pauline Paterson (LSHTM): We are really delighted to welcome Reda Sadki.

Der Franc-CFA steht im Zentrum der neokolonialen Beziehungen Frankreichs zu mehreren westafrikanischen Staaten. Kritiker:innen werfen der Währung vor, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Region zu behindern und dadurch Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen nach Europa zu begünstigen. Diese Kritik wird zunehmend von rechtspopulistischen Akteur:innen oft mit irreführenden Argumenten aufgegriffen.

Milad Haghani, Stephan Winter e Abbas Rajabifard HAGHANI, Milad; WINTER, Stephan; RAJABIFARD, Abbas. Por que é hora de colocar a ética e a humanidade no centro da educação em engenharia. (trad. Marcio Miotto e...

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This time last year, when we reflected on ROR’s milestones in 2024, one of the major highlights was the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API. Now, as we think back on 2025, where we were a year ago makes a nice bookend to one of the major highlights of the current year: last week’s sunset of version 1 of the ROR schema and API.

An investigation of the kinetics of the reaction between titanocene pentasulfide and sulfenyl chloride leading to the formation of the S7 allotrope of sulfur was accompanied by supporting DFT calculations which led to the conclusion that of five possible mechanisms for the reaction, the most probable corresponded to a variant of the concerted σ-bond metathesis (Scheme 1, […]

read this article in English Wie in den vergangenen Jahren möchten wir auch diesmal einen Überblick über die wichtigsten technischen und funktionalen Erweiterungen des TIB AV-Portals geben. Das Scrum-Team hat 2025 erneut zahlreiche Verbesserungen umgesetzt, die sowohl die infrastrukturelle Basis als auch die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten des Portals ausgebaut haben.

The "missing middle" for omics data analysis in Python

Researchers are people of science, of facts, of specifics. With the duty of being unbiased, they set their assumptions aside and prioritize what the data tells them above everything else. And yet, when that son of a Reviewer 2 criticizes their data… Oof, man… Tough blow.