nature – February 9, 2023 issue:
Pill for a skin disease also curbs excessive drinking
The drug apremilast reduces alcohol intake in mice bred to imbibe to excess and in humans with alcohol-use disorder.
Einstein’s theory helps to reveal Jupiter’s distant duplicate
For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.
Fluffball foxes wander thousands of kilometres to find a home
The Arctic fox, which weighs less than many house cats, covers long distances in the frigid north.
In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in the US directly detected ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. These waves were produced by the final spiral of two oribiting black holes that smashed into each other, sending ripples across the universe.