At a pharmacy in Iowa, a 42-year-old Black gay man couldn’t find a medication he needed. The pharmacist, a white woman, told him they didn’t stock that medication. But while…
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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the…
Europe’s Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022
Europe’s highly anticipated Hera mission to catalog the wreckage of the asteroid Dimorphos has arrived at its Florida launch site for final checks ahead of its planned liftoff early next…
Tips to easing the pan
An arthritis sufferer’s joints start to get ornery when the weather turns colder, getting stiff and achy as the mercury drops. Cold weather doesn’t cause arthritis, but it can make…
Cathay Airbus engine fire linked to cleaning: EU regulator
Cathay Pacific grounded its A350s after a Zurich-bound jet was forced to turn back to Hong Kong earlier in September. A cleaning process leading to fuel hose degradation during refurbishment…
Organic or conventional farming? Which system better preserves our fragile insect population
Athree-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future of the global insect population: modern agriculture was steering us toward…
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion
This picture taken by LOFAR shows Porphyrion, with the galaxy hosting the supermassive black hole in the centre. The largest blob-like structure near the centre is a separate smaller jet…
Food fussiness a largely genetic trait from toddlerhood to adolescence, study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fussy eating is mainly influenced by genes and is a stable trait lasting from toddlerhood to early adolescence, finds a new study led by researchers from…
Storing the sun’s heat at 1,200°C
After up to 500 hours in the oven, many of the materials show visible signs of corrosion. Credit: Empa Closing the CO₂ cycle by converting climate-damaging carbon dioxide back into…
Archaeologists excavate one of Europe’s largest Neolithic settlements
Archaeologists are excavating a fortified settlement associated with the Linear Pottery Culture at Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European…
