Honour-based abuse is a serious issue that includes things like forced marriage and female genital mutilation. It's hard to track because local data is scarce. To tackle this, experts used a clever method called comparative judgement. They asked people to compare different areas and guess which had more abuse. But comparing similar areas was tiring. So, they added an...

Scientists often use genetic data to figure out how closely related different organisms are. One common way they do this is by using something called a Markov substitution model. This model helps them understand how changes, or substitutions, happen in molecular sequences over time. The general time reversible model, or GTR, is a popular choice for DNA data. It's eas...