Slight changes in the orbit of Saturn’s moon Mimas hint at the presence of a vast, young ocean beneath the satellite’s icy surface that may have formed between 5 million and 50 million years ago, Adam Mann reported in “This Saturn moon may harbor water” (SN: 3/9/24, p. 8).
Reader Bobby Baum asked how the ocean formed so recently and whether an ocean could have formed multiple times in the past.
Saturn’s moons gravitationally interact with
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It was the picture that perfectly captured the bleak state of NHS dentistry in 2024. Hundreds of desperate people standing in a queue that snaked into the distance, all clinging to the hope they might finally get the care they urgently needed.
The farce at the newly opened St Paul’s Dental Practice in Bristol – where an estimated 1,500 patients were registered for NHS treatment in just two days – highlighted the extent of the crisis that the sector currently
The online mapping tool Landscape Explorer uses historical and modern aerial images to show how the American West’s landscapes have changed over the last 70 years, Brianna Randall wrote in “Landscape Explorer transports you back to a more wild West” (SN: 12/2/23, p. 32).
Randall wrote that Landscape Explorer has helped conservationists in Montana prioritize where to remove invasive trees that have taken root in grasslands, which threaten local biodiversity and increase the risk of catastrophic
You may be surprised to hear that the proverbial Allure group chat (a.k.a. Slack) is just as a-buzz with new product launches as it is with editor love letters to classic beauty products. It turns out, our readers are just like us. We took a look at the most popular beauty products of 2023 among our audience and compiled our findings into one fascinating end-of-year roundup.
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Lynsey Bleakly had been trying to conceive for two years when, aged 39 and aware she was running out of time, she visited an acupuncturist who specialised in treating fertility problems.
‘The longer it didn’t happen, the more anxious I became,’ says Lynsey, now 47, who tearfully told the £90-an-hour therapist her story. But the acupuncturist seemed unperturbed by Lynsey’s history. ‘She said she’d got lots of women pregnant, and it would be me next.’
It was a bold claim.
Western colonists’ seizure of Indigenous lands and subsequent abusive assimilation efforts continue to harm and traumatize Indigenous people, leading to high rates of mental illness, chronic disease, incarceration and suicide. Psychologists are researching whether mental health programs founded on Indigenous traditions can help these communities reconnect with their culture and heal, Sujata Gupta reported in “Culture aids Indigenous mental health” (SN: 9/23/23, p. 14).
The story resonated with reader Gary Seeman. “I retired from psychological
“My trust is more fragile than 10 years ago,” one reader writes, “because I can see very easily how our institutions could be completely destroyed in a matter of months.”
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Frail, elderly patients are stuck in a ‘revolving door’ of hospital treatment, where they are discharged then swiftly readmitted because shockingly poor aftercare leaves them sicker than they were to begin with, experts have warned.
The situation stems from an NHS policy launched in 2015, designed to address the problem of bed-blockers – the somewhat derogatory term used to describe patients, most of them elderly, who are occupying a hospital bed they don’t strictly need.
The protocol, called Discharge To
One shot of an experimental gene therapy kept female cats kitten-free for at least two years, Erin Garcia de Jesús reported in “Gene therapy prevents cat pregnancy” (SN: 7/15/23 & 7/29/23, p. 10).
Reader Christie Borem asked why the researchers focused on female cats.
It only takes one “pesky” male cat to impregnate multiple females, says reproductive biologist David Pépin of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. If male contraceptives alone were used, nearly every
