Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Three stories we saw this morning were so compelling that it was impossible to choose just one to showcase. Each was so novel, so rich, that they raised a deeper ques…

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Like you, gentle readers, we have our favourite economics correspondents we turn to every Monday‑morning :sages who try to make sense o…

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com Photo by Ian Probets on Pexels.com Photo by Mushtaq Hussain on Pexels.com Friday night is our night to make a suggestion for you to enjoy a civilised and soph…

Photo by Subhasish Baidya on Pexels.com Photo by Eu Aragoneses on Pexels.com Photo by Helena Lopes on Pexels.com Hidden chambers?We were intrigued by this piece from Naure Briefing called Hidden ch…

Photo by Rasmus Svinding on Pexels.com Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com In 1994 Wayne Merry was a Senior Political Officer at the US Embassy in Moscow. Those were heady days for the US and the W…

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Photo by Ivan S on Pexels.com Long‑serving LSS readers will know the admiration we’ve expressed for CAR‑T therapy (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T‑cells) and the…

Photo by Archie Binamira on Pexels.com Photo by Brent Keane on Pexels.com Photo by Irina Iriser on Pexels.com A few years ago, at the height of the COVID pandemic, we published a short series of bl…

One of the things about reading Nature Briefing: they always seem put you au fait with the cutting-edge medical techniques, and the science that drives them, a little way ahead of the mainstream. W…

Photo by alleksana on Pexels.com Photo by Andris Bergmanis on Pexels.com Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com Say the  words “James” and “Bond” in that order, and the world thinks of an elegant…

Photo by Duu0161an Cvetanoviu0107 on Pexels.com Photo by Jared VanderMeer on Pexels.com Photo by Alexandra Bakhareva on Pexels.com Adversity makes for unusual bedfellows Not so long ago both the EU…

Photo by turek on Pexels.com BENNUu2019S JOURNEY – Early Earth by NASA Goddard Photo and Video is licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Photo by Katerina Holmes on Pexels.com One of the most fascinating q…

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Jan Tang on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Our showcase today is an article by Shivali Best of the Mail, who reports that this September has seen …

Photo by Wind Tan on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Our showcase today, (in three languages, folks!),is two stories on the soi disant Super El Niño which…

Photo by Edward Jenner on Pexels.com A 200X photomicrograph magnification of a direct by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Whatever else we write about, the pr…

Photomicrograph of a human blood by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Enlightenment in the Skies The brother and sister combinat…

Photo by u0410u043bu0435u0441u044c u0423u0441u0446u0456u043du0430u045e on Pexels.com Photo by Bru00e1ulio jardim on Pexels.com According to a leading AI safety researcher there is now a 10% chance …

Photo by mali maeder on Pexels.com Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com “Hey-Farmer! Leave them antibiotics alone!” we might be tempted to sing to the tune of the popular ditty by the Blue Floyd, Pin…

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Photo by Rachel Claire on Pexels.com Photo by Mark Baldovino on Pexels.com Photo by Chris F on Pexels.com We’ve often waxed lyrical here about the Singapore Sling, that delicious mix of gin, cherry…

Photo by Jan-Rune Smenes Reite on Pexels.com Photo by Angie Reyes on Pexels.com Calming England’s motor city: Visiting London the other week, we suddenly noticed how clean it looked and how safe wa…

Photo by Giftpundits.com on Pexels.com We’ve been getting a lot of likes and comments lately, for which we are enduringly grateful. Sorry we can’t list our kind interlocutors -a full list would str…

Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com We often showcase the Guardian’s Larry Elliott. not just because he’s good at economics (he is), but also because his articles have a way of illuminating a much…

Photo by Klub Boks on Pexels.com Photo by Erik Mclean on Pexels.com We’ve always been big fans of primates large and small. So we hope you’ll be as cheered as we were by this piece Can AI help stop…

Photo by Belle Co on Pexels.com Every so often someone comes along with a piece that seems to capture our thinking, give words to what we have been trying to say, only does it much better than we e…

Photo by Eva Navarro on Pexels.com Photo by Irina Berdzenishvili on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Back in the far-off days before global warming, we often chose Spain in September or Oc…

Photo by Jens Mahnke on Pexels.com Photo by icon0.com on Pexels.com Fiery Doom? Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns that intensifying wildfires and heatwaves are accelerating the release of methane and carb…

Photo by Radwan Menzer on Pexels.com Photo by turek on Pexels.com Photo by Moussa Idrissi on Pexels.com Veteran readers will immediately recall our 2024 offering (LSS 17 2 24) in which we hailed th…

Photo by Travis Rupert on Pexels.com We have always been keen advocates of Nuclear Fusion, hoping for the ultimate in utterly clean utterly abundant power it represents (LSS passim) Until recently,…

Photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels.com Photo by Damir Mijailovic on Pexels.com Good morning gentle readers and welcome to another week in which we shall together learn even more about Science and …

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A 200X photomicrograph magnification of a direct by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Vaccines have been the most successful tool in public health for over 150…

Photo by Alexey Demidov on Pexels.com Photo by Mike Bird on Pexels.com Photo by Vlad Fonsark on Pexels.com Remember the waves of fury and anger that swept over certain sections of the population wh…

Photo by Sanketh Rao on Pexels.com Photo by Arunodhai V on Pexels.com It’s a funny thing to be a progressive. We ‘re always prey to the Law of Unintended Consequences. For example, we rack ou…

Photo by Denitsa Kireva on Pexels.com Photo by on Pexels.com As a party of academics led by world renowned palaeontologist Steve Brusatte crossed the remote landscape of Scotland, one of their numb…

Photo by Prem Pal Singh on Pexels.com Photo by Sephina Cornwall on Pexels.com A few short weeks ago we published a sort piece on Italian Cocktails in which we praised the Aperol Spritz (LSS 15 5 26…

Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels.com Photo by Marino Kuruniu0107 on Pexels.com Photo by Paul Seling on Pexels.com a few examples from this week’s news Is Birth order Destiny?  We’ve long bee…

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Over the years we’ve enjoyed bringing you good‑news cancer stories. Only a fraction of what’s available in the wider media, of course, but we try to showcase the ones…

Photo by David Bartus on Pexels.com Last week, with the help of our doughty researchers, we published a small piece describing how Artificial Intelligence is being employed to design new generation…

Photo by turek on Pexels.com Ever attentive to our readers’ clamour for more good news on antibiotic resistance we bear yet another story on the synthesis of Artificial Intelligence with the fronti…

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Sawyer Sutton on Pexels.com In Cocktail homage to the United States, until recently the greatest nation on the planet, we have chosen the Manhattan. That ne …

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Tom Fisk on Pexels.com Photo by Angie Reyes on Pexels.com Readers, contributors, even our downtrodden staff, we apologise wholly and unreservedly for not tel…

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Pexels.com Photo by Ulrick Trappschuh on Pexels.com Photo by CDC on Pexels.com It’s not the new stuff that comes up, it’s the unexpected stuff that gets us out of bed in …

Photo by Nicola Narracci on Pexels.com Photo by Jef K on Pexels.com Photo by wal_ 172619 on Pexels.com At LSS we’re a pretty eclectic kind of blog. So when we think we’ve got into a rut -too much o…

Photo by Ferdous Hasan on Pexels.com Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com  Does living by the seaside make you ill? Today, we’re showcasing some excellent reporting by Shaun Wooller of the M…

One of our longest running tropes  has been the exciting new CRISPR Cas 9 gene editing technologies (LSS passim) Not just for the medical advances it offers, but because it’s a classic   example of…

Photo by Petr Wolf on Pexels.com Photo by Fatih u00d6zkan on Pexels.com Europe burns: June 2026 was the hottest June ever recorded in western Europe, driving temperatures to the highest levels seen…

Photo by Prem Pal Singh on Pexels.com Photo by Kampus Production on Pexels.com Photo by alleksana on Pexels.com For easy reading we’ve always been fans of Spanish crime novels or el novela policíac…