In rats, cannabis during pregnancy rewires the brains of offspring
Oct 17th 2019AS GOVERNMENTS around the world update their policies towards the legality of cannabis, that drug’s medical and…
Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news
Oct 24th 2019VILNIUS“PATIENT ZERO” is a medical term that started as a misunderstanding. An early North American victim of…
Plantation owners profit by not persecuting primates
Oct 24th 2019PALM OIL is a lucrative business, but not without its problems. Plantations of palms, the fruit of which are crushed…
Claims about a treatment for Alzheimer’s should be met with caution
Oct 24th 2019A DRUG THAT slowed the progress of Alzheimer’s disease would be both a boon to humanity and a cash cow for the…
Migrants from coalfields take DNA as well as talent with them
Oct 24th 2019IT IS A common assumption that migrants have more pizzazz than stay-at-homes. That this is reflected in people’s…
IBM challenges a recent result in quantum computing
Oct 31st 2019IT WAS HAILED by many, including The Economist, as a landmark result in quantum computing. In September a scientific…
A pair of Australian bridges try to cure concrete cancer
Oct 31st 2019MODERN CIVILISATION is built on concrete and steel. Put the two together, though, and you can generate a problem….
Where was Eden? Perhaps in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana
Oct 31st 2019NORTHERN BOTSWANA is a land of strange contrast. Drive west from Francistown, the country’s second city, and you…
Why museums’ animal collections favour males
Oct 26th 2019UNTIL RECENT years, science has been a male-dominated profession. And that bias, it turns out, is reflected not just…