Opioid prescription doses are increasingly being tapered, often more rapidly than recommended

Stigma and safety fears have made daily dose tapering of opioid prescriptions more common. New research,…

The forests of the Amazon are an important carbon sink

The world’s tropical forests store huge quantities of carbon in their biomass and thus constitute an…

Nominations Invited for CWops Award for Advancing the Art of CW

CWops is now accepting nominations for its Award for Advancing the Art of CW for 2020. The…

A Weakened Black Hole Allows Its Galaxy to Awaken

Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are…

Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm

Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’ that Earth sings…

YGT Experience at ESA

Learn about the YGT programme and forthcoming interviews on the YGT experience. Stay tuned! …

Foam offers way to manipulate light

Scientists have shown that a type of foam long studied by scientists is able to block…

Personality traits affect retirement spending

How quickly you spend your savings in retirement may have as much or more to do…

Experimental cholesterol-lowering drug effective at lowering bad cholesterol, study shows

Twice-yearly injections of an experimental cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran, were effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol,…

Tuning quantum materials with hydrogen gas

Researchers at TU Delft have discovered a method to stretch and compress quantum materials using hydrogen…