Leo Wilson 
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Saturday Night Live kicked off its season finale this week with a skit teasing Donald Trump’s vice-presidential picks – including a gun-toting, dog-killing Kristi Noem and the “late, great” Hannibal Lecter. … Read more
When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think about them, but phase transitions in novel materials or complex physical systems are an important area of … Read more
by Yolanda van Heezik, Christopher K. Woolley, Jacqueline Theis and Maibritt Pedersen Zari, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cities across Aotearoa New Zealand are trying to solve a housing crisis, with increasing residential density a key solution. But not everyone is happy about the resulting loss of natural habitats and biodiversity. Some homeowners in … Read more
Cast your mind back, if you will, to the beginning of the pandemic, before the World Health Organization had coined the term Covid-19. Back then, it was the “Wuhan virus”, a mysterious pathogen from a city that few people outside China had visited. On 12 January 2020, China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A cabinet minister has admitted that tens of thousands of victims have waited too long for compensation as a result of the infected blood scandal. Grant Shapps also said that families affected by … Read more
B cells can control responses of myeloid cells through the release of particular cytokines (small proteins that control the growth and activity of cells in the immune system), challenging the prevailing view that T cells are the principle orchestrators of immune responses. In individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), abnormally active respiration in B cells drives … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Companies tend not to clamor for more regulatory oversight, as a general rule. One remarkable exception would be the relatively small group of companies that voluntarily file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Although not required to file due to their small size or private ownership, these companies do so … Read more
Douglas Russell, a senior curator at London’s Natural History Museum, was examining a collection of nests gathered on the island of Guam when he made an unsettling discovery. “The nests had been picked up more than 100 years ago, and I was curating them with the aim of adding them to the museum’s main collection. … Read more
We will get credit for title if we win, don’t know what people think of us – Guardiola Manchester City will win a fourth successive Premier League title if they beat West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium today. City come into the final day two points clear of Arsenal after seeing off Tottenham in … Read more
Important brain structures that are key for signaling in the brain are narrower and less dense in females, and more likely to be damaged by brain injuries, such as concussion. Long-term cognitive deficits occur when the signals between brain structures weaken due to the injury. The structural differences in male and female brains might explain … Read more
