When Barcelona’s inhabitants emerged from a six-week lockdown at the end of April last year, they found that while the city had lain dormant, nature had been busy transforming the streets and parks into a bucolic wilderness. “The parks were shut,…
31/01/2021 The Guardian
The two patients who received the treatment showed significant progress over just days.
28/01/2021 LiveScience
It's no secret many kids (and adults) don't like needles. But where needle phobia can be a barrier to vaccine acceptance, it's important to set your children up not to fear injections. Here's how.
27/01/2021 The Conversation
Though people believe they respect a logical, fact-based opponent, they actually have greater esteem for arguments based on experience.
25/01/2021 LiveScience
German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.
23/01/2021 Reuters
Tests are underway to if the pods protect against frostbite. If so, they could be rolled out across Germany
22/01/2021 The Independent
A cheap and simple change to the equipment used by Namibian fishing boats is saving tens of thousands of vulnerable seabirds annually, researchers have estimated.
19/01/2021 The Guardian
My 11-year-old daughter and I cracked open a book I'd bought for her on puberty and changing female bodies. On the very first page it informed her that, once her body developed, men would start looking at her differently.
19/01/2021 CNN
‘After two brain surgeries and further radiotherapy, niraparib has given me another lease of life,’ says woman
15/01/2021 The Independent
Yellow mealworm finger foods, smoothies, biscuits, pasta and burgers could soon be mass produced across Europe after the insect became the first to be found safe for human consumption by the EU food safety agency.
13/01/2021 The Guardian
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
11/01/2021 The Conversation
In 2008, as a young, unknown chef, he took a loin from one fish and attached it to the loin of another, using collagen to bind the two proteins together. He called them hybrids and served them to unsuspecting diners at Aponiente, his restaurant in…
09/01/2021 Time Magazine
“WHAT DO YOU call traditional medicine that works?” “Medicine.” This old joke contains more than a milligram of truth.
07/01/2021 Economist
CRISPR gene editing in mice has been used to correct a mutation that can cause rapid ageing, dramatically improving the animals' health and lifespan
06/01/2021 NewScientist
New laws due this summer will allow gay men who have had the same partner for three months or more to give blood
06/01/2021 The Conversation
Electric cars comprised 54% of all new vehicle sales in Norway for 2019. This makes Norway the first country to have sold more electric cars than petrol, hybrid, and diesel engines in a year.
05/01/2021 The Independent
Doctors in Europe, India and Israel have begun using a medical gun that spins out a protective web to cover burns and wounds, hoping the breathable “skin substitute” will help patients recover without the need for painful bandage changes.
04/01/2021 The Guardian
