New Trial Seeks the Ideal Cooling Time to Save More Cardiac Arrest Patients

More than 250,000 people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States each year, and roughly 90 per cent of them do not survive, a grim statistic driving renewed research into how care immediately after the event can be improved. A new trial is now focused on refining one of the field’s most promising tools: […]

Born in Burkina Faso: The Dance Technique Letting Deaf Dancers Feel the Music

A groundbreaking dance technique developed in Burkina Faso is changing how deaf and hard-of-hearing people experience movement and music. Founded in 2018 by choreographer Yaya Sanou, the Burkinabe contemporary dance troupe behind the innovation has built its work around “Vibra-Signe,” a technique Sanou created specifically to make dance accessible beyond sound. Vibra-Signe draws on vibration […]

From Capital to Prosperity: Can Africa Build the Financial Engine to Power Its Own Industrialisation?

As Africa’s economies continue to grow, a central question is taking on new urgency: can the continent build a financial system robust enough to power large-scale industrialisation? With abundant natural resources, expanding economies and a rising middle class, the raw ingredients for industrial growth exist, but a fully developed financial system to channel that potential […]

Cutting Sweet Foods From Your Diet Might Not Curb Cravings After All, Study Finds

A six-month clinical trial has found that adjusting how much sweet-tasting food people eat may do little to change their cravings or improve key health markers. Researchers assigned participants to high-, low-, or average-sweetness diets to test whether the changes would shift preferences for sweet foods, affect body weight, or move markers linked to diabetes […]