What does it feel like to be a rat? We will never know, but some very unusual mice may now have an inkling.
In a series of new experiments, bits of rat brain grew inside the brains of mice. Donor stem cells from rats formed elaborate — and functional — neural structures in mice’s brains, despite being from a completely different species, researchers report in two papers published April 25 in Cell.
The findings are “remarkable,” says Afsaneh Gaillard,
A pregnant lawyer who plunged to her death after being thrown of a cliff at a picturesque tourist site by her abusive husband will be the subject of a chilling new documentary.
Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, was thrown 50ft off Arthur’s Seat in September 2021, following a horrific campaign of abuse by her partner, Kashif Anwar.
The 31-year-old employment lawyer was 17-weeks pregnant with her first child when she fell to her death at the hands of ‘jealous, evil and
On a grey afternoon in Edinburgh last November, four women took celebratory photographs together at the city’s train station — something that only months earlier no one could ever have imagined.
They were bittersweet souvenirs of a momentous occasion; hours earlier, the women had sat together in court while Aaron Swan, the man who had raped and abused them, was finally convicted of a series of sexual offences.
All four women were his victims, and all had thought they would
Ancient viruses have really gotten on our nerves, but in the best of ways.
One particular retrovirus — embedded in the DNA of jawed vertebrates — helps turn on production of a protein needed to insulate nerve fibers, researchers report February 15 in Cell. Such insulation, called myelin, may have helped make speedy thoughts and complex brains possible.
The retrovirus trick was so handy, in fact, that it showed up many times in the evolution of vertebrates with jaws,
For his first few frenetic months as the San Francisco 49ers’ general manager in 2017, John Lynch left his family behind in San Diego. His temporary home at the Santa Clara Marriott became a brainstorming center for reversing the fortunes of a moribund franchise.
The 49ers, coming off a 2-14 season, had perhaps the NFL’s worst roster. Lynch had no NFL front office experience. He’d have to learn on the fly with coach Kyle Shanahan, his new partner at the
In the hunt for new materials, scientists have traditionally relied on tinkering in the lab, guided by intuition, with a hefty serving of trial and error.
But now a new battery material has been discovered by combining two computing superpowers: artificial intelligence and supercomputing. It’s a discovery that highlights the potential for using computers to help scientists discover materials suited to specific needs, from batteries to carbon capture technologies to catalysts.
Calculations winnowed down more than 32 million candidate materials
On the surface, Pandora Morris, 35, has everything. She’s pretty, blonde, well-connected and has a posh London address – the type of woman you might see on the pages of society magazine Tatler.
But there is a sadness about her cornflower blue eyes which reflect a less golden story. Pandora, a lawyer by profession and scion of a large London banking dynasty, has spent decades battling obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which developed into a severe exercise addiction and eating disorder
For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with my weight. I was a chubby baby, a chubby toddler, a chubby teenager . . . and so it has gone on.
Now aged 42, I’ve tried every diet and weight-loss gimmick going, with varied success.
I’ve done Atkins (pretty good, until I fancied bread); WeightWatchers (boring); just consuming Diet Coke and cigarettes (brilliant, but obviously short term).
I’ve tried various medications, from taking what amounted to legal speed doled
The cardboard boxes are almost as ancient as some of the contents. Glass baubles, fairy lights, bows and tinsel swags — they’re all here.
Some fragile cardboard and glitter decorations that my children made when they were small twinkle next to newer tin toys, collected on our travels.
These tiny trinkets are full of memories of Christmases past, and finding them each December, a sign of happy celebrations to come again.
For the past few years, though, most of my
In May 2022, an air-traffic controller in Florida received a frantic call. The pilot of a single-engine Cessna 208 had collapsed, leaving the sole passenger—with no experience at all flying a plane—to fend for himself in the cockpit. Remarkably, the controller was able to direct the passenger to take the controls, reach an airport, and safely land.
The story went viral for several days, perhaps in part because we can all imagine ourselves in that nightmare come true.
