Oh my aching back: Do yoga, tai chi or qigong help?

About 80 percent of Americans will experience low back pain at some point. Patients are often…

A new approach to calm that angry nose

Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) is a type of airway disease that involves nasal inflammation. Here, semaphorin…

Global study maps cancer mutations in large catalogue

Mutations in 38 different types of cancer have been mapped by means of whole genome analysis…

Wasp nests used to date ancient Kimberley rock art

Mud wasp nests collected from Kimberley sites with the permission of traditional owners help scientists establish…

Is it possible to reduce political polarization?

In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, an unusual experiment suggested that it might…

Cancer mutations occur decades before diagnosis

A large-scale pan-cancer analysis of the evolutionary history of tumours reveals that cancer-causing mutations occur decades…

Breathing may change your mind about free will

Is free will just an illusion? For decades, a signal from the brain called the ‘readiness…

New tool monitors real time mutations in flu

A team has developed a tool to monitor influenza A virus mutations in real time, which…

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after record mission

U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, landed in Kazakhstan on…

NASA astronaut Koch returns to Earth after record space mission

A capsule carrying a crew of three from the International Space Station, including record-setting United States…