January 16, 20255 min readHow Will Fire Investigators Trace the Source of the L.A. Wildfires?Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignitionBy Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna...
Parallel online readings in German and English of Elfriede Jelinek’s new play ENDSIEG: THE SECOND COMING—a response to the re-election of Donald Trump. Directed by Milo Rau, English translation by Gitta Honegger. With introductory words by Elfriede Jelinek on the...
Spider silk is the toughest known fibre, stronger, weight for weight, than high-tensile steel and KevlarRuskin Photos/Alamy One of the things children of the late 21st century remark on, when looking back at people in the 2020s, is the clothes....
Artist’s impression of Carinodens, a mosasaur whose remains scientists suspect might have been manipulated and then labelled as a new speciesHenry Sharpe Remnants of a bizarre “shark-toothed” aquatic predator that lived alongside dinosaurs were probably forged, according to new research....
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...
