‘Science is a human endeavor’: astrophysicist uses art to connect Black and brown kids to the Stem fields

Through her book, Painting the Cosmos, and her non-profit, Onaketa, Dr Nia Imara hopes to introduce underserved youth to the sciences When practicing funeral ceremonies during the antebellum period, enslaved west Africans mimicked the sun’s rotation as they danced counterclockwise in hidden clearings. They would sing and shuffle their feet...

Immunotherapy trial helps cancer patients with tumours live 40% longer

Experts praise groundbreaking results from therapy using genetically modified Car T-cells Cancer patients treated with a pioneering immunotherapy that genetically modifies their own cells to wipe out tumours live 40% longer, according to “exciting” and “groundbreaking” results from a world-first clinical trial. Car T-cell therapy is a new form of...