Cultural Studies

By the forced displacement of Africans to the New World, the Europeans might have brought infectious diseases to America more

An essay by Peter van der Veer on the different ways of dealing with face masks, toilet paper and the fear of death in Asia and the western world more

Musicians and music lovers are hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, music needs communities, but social distancing measures prevent rehearsals and concerts, cutting musicians off from their audience. In many places, musicians are now coming up with various creative ways to close this gap, especially via the Internet. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, has launched an survey into music in the time of corona together with colleagues from five other European countries. more

A salt formed due to corrosion on a restored artwork features a structure that is known from the world of biology more

Oldest reconstructed bacterial genomes link agriculture and herding with emergence of new disease more