LGBTQ-friendly policies can have a significant impact on innovation in major US firms. The study found that for every standard deviation increase in a company’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the number of patents increased by 20 percent. LGBTQ-friendly firms also demonstrated an almost 25 percent increase in the number of patent citations.

A new study  by Prof. XUE Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Prof. YAO Yonggang of the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Prof. ZHAO Huan of Hefei University has revealed that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific neural pathway in the brain.

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish origin of the Huns / publication in the ‘Transactions of the Philological Society’

Population decline, ageing and the concentration of the economy and services in urban centres have put peripheral regions under increasing pressure as opportunities for development are steadily shrinking. In her doctoral thesis, Kadri Kangro, a PhD candidate at the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University, highlights that rural areas have their own strengths that can be harnessed through a social hackathon or co-creation platform.

There has been little research on sexual philosophy in Estonia, but it is a field of research that helps us make sense of an important part of human relationships. Rita Niineste, a PhD candidate at Tallinn University's School of Humanities, investigated what gives meaning to sex and why historical sexual theories have a negative impact on women's sexual self-perception.

Kristjan Haljak, who defended his doctoral thesis at the Tallinn University’s School of Humanities, argued that both the Estonian writer Jaan Oks and the French writer Comte de Lautréamont share a revolutionary and rebellious approach to creativity, as well as a struggle for the radical freedom of both body and soul.

The cultural space is a reflection of societal values. Alina Poklad, a PhD candidate at Tallinn University's School of Humanities, researched how people with disabilities are portrayed in contemporary Russian culture and how this is reflected in public discourse.