A bizarre scene of court chaos as a lawyer supposedly representing key witnesses, the Skripals, in an infamous poising case, plays very dumb.
Read more...In “Horizons,” a historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
Read more...A layperson’s overview of pain channels and how painkillers interefere with them.
Read more...The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...From new PhDs to full professors, the pressure to publish entrenches scientists in the current system, making it resistant to change.
Read more...An analysis of the concentration of key commodities in supply chains shows why the Russia sanctions are having some outsized effects.
Read more...Is this hyperbole: “Attention deficit disorder is the neurological condition of late capitalism.”
Read more...Yet another reason to dispense with disposable coffee cups: nanoplastics, which are ingested when the coffee is drunk. The health implications of their ubiquity is unknown and has not yet been well-studied.
Read more...Ancient and medieval herbal abortifacients were effective and important to those economies.
Read more...California AG Rob Bonta launches investigation into the plastics industry’s half-century campaign to promote recycling myths.
Read more...Some Covid news, not encouraging but not yet alarming.
Read more...In “Healing,” psychiatrist and former NIMH head Thomas Insel argues for a more nuanced plan to fight mental illness.
Read more...A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...Not only is permafrost releasing methane, but when it melts, it removes a key support, leading to collapsing soil and loss of lake drainage.
Read more...“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5C,” IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea announced.
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