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Sarah works in her community garden on Saturday, September 25, 2021. PHOTOS BY JOHN LOK / for UCSF

Health

Woman鈥檚 depression treated by an implant responding to brain patterns

A treatment for depression that involves putting electrodes into the brain to respond to unique neural patterns has seen success for a woman

Knee osteoarthritis

Health

Lubricating arthritic knees with synthetic fluid may help tissue heal

Quantum chip

Technology

Quantum computers can now fix their own mistakes without making more

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021.

Health

Medicine Nobel awarded for explaining how we sense heat and touch

letter from Queen Marie-Antoinette to Count de Fersen

Humans

Marie Antoinette’s censored love letters have been read using X-rays

butterfly on uv light

These female butterflies can see an extra ultraviolet colour

Extremely detailed and realistic high resolution 3D illustration of an earth like Exoplanet. Shot from space

Space

Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

Norwegian hydrodam

Technology

Norwegian reservoirs power homes in Great Britain via 724km cable

Red postman butterfly on a leaf

Life

Some female butterflies can see an extra ultraviolet colour

Breast cancer cells

Health

First map of proteins in tumour cells pinpoints cancer therapy targets

Treating cancer may one day be easier using a map that reveals how hundreds of proteins interact with one another in cancer cells

Environment

The 5 roles you may have to affect climate change

Life

Female cleaner fish can judge when to cheat without getting caught

Health

Coming off antidepressants risks relapse 鈥� but so does staying on them

Health

Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives