What is the ‘tree of life’?
She has written for The Guardian, Wired Magazine, TED Ed, Anthropocene, China Dialogue, and Yale e360 among others, and has masters degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University.
New COVID-19 booster shots have been approved. When should you get one?
One large study examining evidence of antibodies against the coronavirus found that by the fall of 2022 more than 96 percent of people in the United States had immunity from vaccination, prior infection or both.
Video games are good, actually, find scientists
Egami and his colleagues found that those who won the lotteries had slightly better mental well-being scores than those who were unsuccessful, though this plateaued after about 3 hours per day of total playing time.
This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey
Behavioral ecologist Daiqin Li of Hubei University in Wuhan, China, and colleagues set up cameras on spiders’ webs in nearby farmland to watch what happened to fireflies caught in them.
We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses – here’s how
I am not the first person to be confused about prostate cancer and whether to test for it, but today these questions are of increasing importance because we are in the midst of a troubling global trend.
Your face’s hot spots may reveal how well you are aging
“We can use the thermal facial image to diagnose these diseases with fairly good accuracy of about 80 percent,” says computational biologist Jing-Dong Jackie Han of Peking University in Beijing.
Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone had roots in Scotland
A Scottish source for the Altar Stone adds to evidence that increasingly points to long-distance connections, including shared pottery styles and house plans, among Late Neolithic groups that inhabited the British Isles during Stonehenge’s construction phases, says archaeologist Alasdair Whittle of Cardiff University in Wales.
‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness
And then the big insight, which came from Yoshiki Sasai in Japan and Madeline Lancaster, was to take these neurons that were beginning to differentiate — cells relatively early in development — and put them in a drop of what's called Matrigel — a gel that can be either a liquid or a solid depending on the temperature.
Why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic
As a result, when the covid-19 pandemic began there were no plans in place for implementing measures such as border controls, lockdowns or testing people and tracing their contacts to identify those who might be infected with the coronavirus and prevent them passing it on to others.
Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data
To test the resilience of the polymer, the researchers encapsulated strands of DNA containing the encoded Jurassic Park theme music and a human’s entire genetic instruction book in the amberlike material and then exposed it to temperatures of 55° Celsius, 65° C and 75° C at 70 percent humidity over seven days.
Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent
While small doses of inflammation can protect us from disease or injury, excessive amounts damage cells, which is believed to accelerate ageing.
9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury’s surface, new study finds
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