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People tell tales to explain what they see – centuries later, scientists try to map handed-down myths onto real geological events.
Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
COVID vaccines don’t contain any live virus to shed. Here’s the science to put the myth of viral shedding after the COVID vaccine to bed.
Gardening provides a helpful metaphor to help us understand how individual and platform approaches to misinformation need to be accompanied by policy and cultural reforms.
Why did Confederate flags start appearing in the country’s anti-lockdown protests?
Even if you’re vaccinated, you still need to come forward for COVID testing, even if you have the mildest symptoms.
It’s a malleable mythos that has been adapted by kings and queens as well as artists and filmmakers.
The myth has become a symbol of the traumatizing legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery. It also serves as a form of resistance and healing.
Perhaps you’ve heard mRNA vaccines cause autoimmune disease, or connect you to the internet. Now the Pfizer vaccine has been approved in Australia, it’s important we iron out these misconceptions.
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
Every time you pop an aspirin, thank the German chemist Hoffmann and not Hippocrates.
The pandemic has exposed many of us to new statistical concepts, on the news, in everyday conversations and on social media. But how many are you getting wrong?
The pandemic has inspired new forms of pilgrimages – some do-it-yourself, in which people are walking in their backyards or nearby spaces and finding meaning.
We can’t expect young men to access reliable COVID-19 messages from people they don’t know, through media they don’t use.
The purveyors of these myths, including politicians who have been soft peddling the impact of the coronavirus, aren’t doing the country any favors.
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It's important for people to seek proper information about the coronavirus and not believe everything they see and hear on social media.
An art historian uncovers the truth about Marthe Bonnard, for decades labelled as a jealous recluse with a neurotic need to bathe.
Some of the false claims about coronavirus may be harmless. But others can be potentially dangerous.
According to Google Trends, the top globally trending topic this week is ‘orthohantavirus’, as spurious sites claim it’s next pandemic on the horizon. The claim is baseless.
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