Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury
For more than 25 years, Richard Youins struggled to find help with his drug addiction. Youins is from New Haven, Conn., home to both Yale University and a number of…
Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA–Protein Hybrid Gets New Support
Chemists say they have solved a crucial problem in a theory of life’s beginnings, by demonstrating that RNA molecules can link short chains of amino acids together. The findings, published…
Covid-19 rebound seen in some people after taking Pfizer drug Paxlovid
Pfizer’s Paxlovid can prevent severe covid-19 in vulnerable people when taken as a five-day course at home, but the medicine may not eradicate the virus in everyone Health 18 May…
Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning
A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just…
AI solves complex physics problems by looking for signs of symmetry
Complicated physics problems are sometimes simpler than they appear, so physicists have made a machine learning model to search for the simplicity Physics 18 May 2022 By Alex Wilkins Concept…
UK expects to produce more electricity than it needs by 2030
New offshore wind farms built as part of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy are expected to turn the country into a net exporter of electricity Environment 18 May 2022 By…
Pollution killed 9 million people worldwide in 2019 alone
Pollution accounted for one in six deaths three years ago, a figure that is unchanged since the last analysis in 2015 Health 17 May 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu A…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is ready to launch to the ISS
At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing hopes to change that with an uncrewed test of its…
Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth’s mysterious first animals?
A mysterious extinction about 540 million years ago may have been caused when early animals began competing against one another Life 17 May 2022 By Michael Marshall Ediacaran fossils in…
Super-sized atoms can be used as a receiver to stream live video
When excited by lasers, a tiny glass container filled with rubidium atoms can act as a receiver for streamed video signals Physics 17 May 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan A video…