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Covid-19 news: Shanghai reports first deaths in its omicron wave
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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How to Make Smart Decisions About COVID Risk-Benefit
As COVID cases declined across the U.S. in recent months and mask mandates were lifted, more people returned to restaurants,…
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A New Dimension to a Meaningful Life
When we think about lives filled with meaning, we often focus on people whose grand contributions benefited humanity. Abraham Lincoln,…
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Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways
Power in nonhuman animals used to play out in such a tidy and simple way. Bigger, stronger animals beat up…
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Russia and Ukraine are both weaponising mobile phones to track troops
Mobile phones ping signals to nearby communications towers, allowing both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers to track the movement of opposition…
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U.S. bills would make it easier to study health effects of marijuana
For decades, marijuana’s federal criminal status has raised obstacles for researchers trying to study the plant’s health impacts, such as…
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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier
CT scans of humans, chimpanzees and macaques reveal that human collarbones slow their growth rate in the final months of…
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The Father of Modern Neuroscience Discovered the Basic Unit of the Nervous System
Hour after hour, year after year, Santiago Ramón y Cajal sat alone in his home laboratory, head bowed and back…
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Watch: Axiom and SpaceX launch first all-private crew to ISS
US company Axiom Space is set to send a commercial crew to visit the International Space Station and perform scientific…
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Covid-19 news: Severe blood clot risk rises 33-fold after infection
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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