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As the COVID-19 pandemic changed how many employees worked, the human resources profession was challenged to support the workforce in new ways. "From the adoption of digital workplace policies to the ...

With human rights regulations expanding, investors need a broader approach to assessing risk and opportunity. Investors often associate human rights with issues related to poor working conditions ...

Goal-directed attention relies on forming internal templates of key information relevant for guiding behavior, particularly when preparing for upcoming sensory inputs. However, evidence on how these ...

A cranial capacity of approximately 1,700 milliliters – significantly larger than both their predecessors and many modern humans. To put this in perspective, the average modern human brain size is ...

Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to ...

and assessing its potential to adapt and spread more effectively among human populations. Such efforts are essential to guide prevention strategies and mitigate the risk of a potential H5N1 pandemic.

Saudi Arabia's bid to host the 2034 World Cup was considered "medium risk" for human rights by FIFA in its evaluation report, which said implementing reforms could take "significant time and effort".

But football's world governing body cautioned, "in terms of human rights, the undertaking ... Fifa said that was the basis for the elevated risk rating for a bid that received an average score ...

while declaring the risk assessment for human rights to be “medium”. Advertisement FIFA also claim in their report that there is “good potential” for the competition to act as a ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...