The hidden victims of the opioid crisis: the ones who lived

After overdoses left them with brain injuries and lasting complications, Americans are struggling to get proper care. Experts call it another epidemic A day in the life of caring for an overdose survivor John-Bryan “JB” Jarrett was supposed to be fishing on the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, September...

Chen-Ning Yang obituary

Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize for his work on the forces acting on fundamental subatomic particles Chen-Ning Yang, the Chinese American theoretical physicist, who has died aged 103, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957. It was during a period at the Institute for Advanced Study at...

How living history is being written into rocks

Scientists are using DNA from sediments to learn more about Earth’s past, including new revelations about the woolly mammoth Fossilisation is rare. Most living things disappear without trace, recycled back into planet Earth. But in some environments the DNA from living things binds to the soil and rock, leaving a...