- September 25, 2024
A drug-free prescription for pain
At a clinic in New Hampshire, cognitive behavioural therapy is used to treat chronic pain.Credit: Dartmouth Health When Toby Moorsom was 19, he had a
Scientists are building a giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work
Education is one sector that is creating a database that brings together research on how to boost learning.Credit: Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Funders are injecting
Tackling the reality of noma
Adamu, a 14-year-old noma survivor, is screened by physicians at the Noma Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria. Adamu’s father has been pursuing reconstructive surgery since Adamu
how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide
The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith W. W. Norton (2024) In the 1620s, King Charles I of England commissioned a Dutch water engineer, Cornelius
Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on
Air travel to attend academic conferences remains widespread although many meeting-goers have reservations about emissions.Credit: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg/Getty An overwhelming majority of survey respondents at a
NASA okays mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Technicians prepare to install Europa Clipper’s 3-metre-wide antenna on the spacecraft on 17 June at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Amazon’s gargantuan gardeners: manatees
Nature, Published online: 07 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02874-9 The aquatic mammals disperse seeds of their favourite foods as they migrate, according to a serendipitous study of
A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer
Oak Ridge, Tennessee The fastest supercomputer in the world is a machine known as Frontier, but even this speedster with nearly 50,000 processors has its
Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket last year also blew
Detecting hidden brain injuries
A physiotherapist assists a woman who has experienced a traumatic brain injury with rehabilitation exercises. Credit: Amelie-Benoist/BSIP/Science Photo Library It’s the middle of the night.
