A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories
The upbeat song Sweet Caroline often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older...
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
‘Gory Details’ dives into the morbid, the taboo — and our minds
Gory DetailsErika EngelhauptNational Geographic, $26 We tend to turn away, physically or metaphorically, from things we find unsavory: leggy insects, bodily fluids, conversations about...
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
An ancient bone from a dog, discovered in a cave in southeast Alaska, hints at when and how humans entered the Americas at the...
What you need to know about J&J’s newly authorized one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the United States. On February...
Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By...
Can a COVID-19 vaccine’s second dose be delayed? It’s complicated
Within a couple weeks after a first vaccine dose, people are well protected against severe COVID-19, new data suggest. With demand for shots far...
Solar storms can wreak havoc. We need better space weather forecasts
Since December 2019, the sun has been moving into a busier part of its cycle, when increasingly intense pulses of energy can shoot out...
COVID-19 vaccines may be ready for teens this summer
Encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines keeps coming. No unusual safety issues arose during the first month of vaccination, when 13.8 million doses of the...
A new laser-based random number generator is the fastest of its kind
By normal standards, the design for a new laser is a total dud. Rather than producing a crisp, steady beam, the laser casts a...
A single male lyrebird can mimic the sound of an entire flock
You might be able to do a mean celebrity impression or two, but can you imitate an entire film’s cast at the same time?...
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song 
FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation 
DURBAN CONFERENCE, 25 YEARS ON – Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and Resistance Work in the Long Run” 
Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch