Play your cards right Readers in the northern hemisphere are facing many more weeks of long, dark nights and cold weather, so what could be better than a fun card game? If you’re too cash-strapped for poker and have exhausted...
Will cutting back on alcohol impact our reader’s social life?Ian Dagnall/Alamy Following the excesses of the holidays, many of us have opted for a Dry January. One reader tells me she hopes to keep cutting back on her drinking after...
January 16, 20255 min readThe Supreme Court’s Case on Trans Health Shows Why Patients Should Make the DecisionsSupreme Court arguments over trans health care makes plain how badly we need personalized health care in all of medicineBy Meredithe McNamara &...
This month marks a year since the malaria vaccine rollout began. Here's what we still need in order to beat a disease as old as ancient Egypt, says Azra Ghani Source link...
We urgently need new ways to understand and treat depressionFotografiaBasica/Getty Images Chemically ImbalancedJoanna Moncrieff (Flint Books) Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she experienced “a period of what might have been called depression”. She didn’t seek treatment, however. “I didn’t...
A humanoid robot waltzes with help from an AI trained on human motion capture recordingsXuxin Cheng and Mazeyu Ji An AI that helps humanoid robots mirror a person’s movement could allow robots to walk, dance and fight in more convincingly...
New Glenn blasts offBlue Origin Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket has successfully launched and reached orbit, though engineers failed to safely land the first-stage rocket booster back on Earth as hoped. Even so, the company’s first launch to orbit...
A few minutes after 2:00 A.M. EST, a hulking, 320-foot-tall rocket slipped its tethers at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and heaved itself into the sky on a bluish-white pillar of flame, briefly turning night into day along the...
Fossil fuels currently power the shipping industrySven Hansche/Shutterstock Switching from burning fossil fuels to burning ammonia is a promising way for the shipping industry to cut its carbon dioxide emissions. But if it isn’t careful, this swap could also boost...
Stone plaques with sun motifs found on Bornholm island, DenmarkAntiquity Publications/John Lee, National Museum of Denmark Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may have been ceremonially buried because a volcanic eruption in about 2900 BC made the...
