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Do you mean recent immigrants since the 20th century, or historical migrations? Shall we take into account regions of France that were next relatively recently as foreign ancestry? For example, Savoy and Nice have only been part of France since 1860. Does it count as Italian ancestry? What...

Who would have thought ten years ago that several regions of the UK would be poorer than Slovenia or Lithuania in 2026? The consequences of Brexit are only starting to emerge and are probably going to get much worse over the next 10 years.

A landmark neuroimaging study finally shows what happens in the brain when an emotionally sensitive person encounters another's joy or sadness Have you ever met someone who tears up at a stranger's smile, or feels physically drained after a crowded party — not because they're anxious or shy...

Slow Down and Live: How Europe's 30 km/h Revolution Is Saving Lives From Graz to Amsterdam, a quiet transformation is reshaping urban streets — and the data proves it's working. There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has watched a child dart across a cobblestone street or a cyclist squeeze...

A new genomic study published in Science has overturned a long-held belief about when domestic cats arrived in Europe, finding that they were introduced not by Neolithic farmers thousands of years ago, but rather around 2,000 years ago — most likely from North Africa. Background and Previous...

Association between intelligence quotient and violence perpetration in the English general population A 2019 study published in Psychological Medicine examined the relationship between intelligence and violence perpetration in the general English population. Conducted by Louis Jacob, Josep...

Dark Triad Across 18 Cultures (Rogoza et al., 2022) Published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, this study by Rogoza and colleagues examined 10,298 adults from 18 cultures across Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, with a mean age of 40.3 years and a roughly even gender split. How Much...

Cross-Cultural Comparison Across 5 Countries A 2023 study (Dark and Light Triad: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Network Analysis in 5 Countries) analyzed both the Light Triad Scale and Short Dark Triad in 2,335 adults from Poland, Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia, and Peru using network analysis. Key...

Several studies have extended this line of research well beyond Australia. The Original Multi-Sample Study (USA) The foundational person-centred study this paper replicates was conducted by Neumann et al. (2020) using large American samples, including visitors to a popular psychology website (N...

You can test your Light Triad and Dark Triad traits to see where you fit in all this. These are the same test as used for this study, namely : The Light Triad Scale (LTS) was published by Kaufman et al. (2019) The Short Dark Triad (SD3) by Jones & Paulhus (2014)

Most of us like to think we're fundamentally good people — but a new study published in Personality and Individual Differences (2026) suggests that human moral personality is more nuanced than a simple good-versus-bad divide. Researchers from Deakin University, Columbia University, and the...

I have sorted the samples from Altheim by Y-DNA haplogroups and indicated the main SNPs. I had to look them up one by one manually, so I am not going to do it for all 20 sites in the study. This could nevertheless by useful to track the arrival of some lineages in South Germany, notably the...

What this study actually changes for us — a pop-gen perspective Prior model: Rome as a transient mixing event Until recently, the working consensus from papers like Margaryan et al. (eLife, 2024) and Antonio et al. (Science, 2019) was that the Roman Empire created transient genetic...

A landmark new study published in Nature sheds unprecedented light on the people who lived along the old Roman frontier in southern Germany between 400 and 700 CE — and overturns some long-held assumptions about migration, marriage, and mortality in the post-Roman world. The Study at a Glance...

Interesting hypothesis. But we do not have to guess. This can easily be verified. Pre-Lion Coins (1126–c. 1133) Alfonso VII's earliest issues still follow Leonese tradition with crosses and mitered heads: Dinero of León (1126–c. 1130): +ALFNVS IMPERATOR REX / +LEO CIVITAS — cross patée...

I was wondering where and when exactly did lions start being adopted on coat of arms in Medieval Europe. I did my research and here is what I found. Anjou (1128 / Geoffrey Plantagenet) León (1134 / Alfonso VII) Flanders (1158–63 / Philip of Alsace) Holland (1160–62 / Floris III) Swabia (1181)...

When I saw this, I thought it was a joke at first. How could this be possible in a democracy? But it's true, although with some caveat. The U.S. Department of State is finalizing a plan to issue a limited‑run, commemorative U.S. passport design that includes President Donald Trump’s portrait...

A new study argues that a lot of public moral and political talk is not just about beliefs or values, but also about status. The authors call this moral grandstanding — meaning the use of moral or political language to make oneself look admirable, important, or superior in front of others. That...

This may have something to do with it. In 2000, over 80% of British people had a favorable opinion of the United States and vice versa. While public opinion of Britain has remained high in the US, British opinion of America has completely collapsed to about 30% of positive opinion – nearly three...

For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to Europe than Europeans moving to the United States. In 2005, there were 140,000 Europeans moving to the U.S. against the 30,000 Americans moving to Europe. The gap has narrowed a lot since COVID and since 2022 more Americans...