At a major HIV conference in July, scientists announced that a seventh person had been ‘cured’ of the disease. A 60-year-old man in Germany, after receiving a stem-cell transplant, has been free of the virus for almost six years, researchers...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship...
A functional magnetic resonance imaging scan (artificially coloured) of a human brain. Researchers used data from such scans to measure...
Too often, the potential of a biomedical discovery to tackle disease is not fully realized. Perhaps the economic return is...
A four-day boot camp proved to be an ideal way for Christian Landry to provide new recruits to his lab...
Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what...
This month, I am in Amman, Jordan, teaching on the annual Palestine Social Medicine Course. This course, now in its...
“When harvesting wind energy, keeping an eye on turbines is crucial, particularly on an island as windy and tropical as...
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of...
South Africa is caught in an energy bind. From sunlight to wind and biomass, the country has an abundance of...
