Voice Training Is a Medical Necessity for Many Transgender People
Calling customer service is a situation we all know and dread. We navigate a complex maze of automated voice commands, hoping for the prize of speaking with a real live…
Umbilical cord ‘milking’ cuts brain injury risk for babies born limp
Squeezing nutrient-rich blood from the umbilical cord into babies who are born pale or struggling to breathe improves health outcomes Health 19 September 2022 By Grace Wade Waiting to clamp…
Ant-slayer spider catches prey with acrobatic leap to wrap it in silk
High-speed cameras have revealed the extraordinary hunting technique of the Australian ant-slayer spider, which is highly successful and thought to be unique Life 19 September 2022 By Michael Le Page…
There are 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants crawling all over Earth
A new study estimates there are 20 quadrillion individual ants across the globe, which together weigh more than all wild birds and mammals combined Life 19 September 2022 By Alice…
A single gene mutation may have made us smarter than Neanderthals
Modern humans have a gene mutation that boosts the growth of neurons in the brain neocortex, a brain region associated with higher intelligence Humans 8 September 2022 By Michael Le…
How Facebook Is Saving Snakes
When Allison Baker moved to what she calls “snake heaven,” a home on 2.5 acres just outside of Dallas–Fort Worth, Tex., her greatest fear was a dangerous encounter between her…
Octavia E. Butler’s Legacy of Time Travel
A Time Traveler’s Legacy KindredOctavia E. ButlerGift edition. Beacon Press, 2022 ($27.95) Afrofuturism—a global, multimedia genre of art rooted in Black cultures—is often used as a liberating lens through which…
How to make leaf mould to nourish your garden
Autumn leaves provide a free and easy way to make leaf mould, a useful growing medium and soil improver, says Clare Wilson Environment 14 September 2022 By Clare Wilson Deborah…
Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Giving Emergency Planners More Time to Prepare for Flooding
I was eating breakfast on a Monday morning at Sears Fine Food in downtown San Francisco, casually watching the local five-day weather forecast on a television screen behind the counter.…
News Briefs from around the World: September 2022
GUADELOUPE A newfound, centimeter-long bacterium challenges conventional wisdom that bacteria cannot grow large enough to be seen with the naked eye. Scientists wonder whether their sulfur-rich mangrove habitat is what…