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...
‘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...
To Lead is to Serve — A Pacific Woman’s Perspective
SUVA, Fiji, Mar 01 (IPS) – An often quoted indigenous reference in the Samoan language is, O le ala i le pule o le...
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...
Biden-Harris Administration Committed to Building Resilient Agricultural Supply Chains
URBANA, Illinois, Feb 26 (IPS) – The White House, under the Presidency of Joe Biden just released an Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains...
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...
Renewed, More Ambitious Targets of Paris Agreement Needed
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) – The UNFCCC launched its ‘Climate Action: NDC Scorecard’ on Feb 26. The report assesses countries’ progress in meeting...
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...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
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