Acting Out Dreams Predicts Parkinson’s and Other Brain Diseases

Policy

Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2023

Sharks wielding research cameras in the Bahamas, Mexico’s spider monkey diplomacy, a carbon “time bomb” in the Republic of Congo, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits...

Daniel Leonard

Arts

Death, Sex and Aliens: A Surprising History of Slime

Sublime slime, sprawling light pollution, harnessing the bioelectricity in our body, and more books out this month

Amy Brady

Climate Change

The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change

Speaking to people’s priorities can build the will needed to implement climate solutions

Susan Joy Hassol

Evolution

How Plants’ Plumbing Let Them Conquer the World

To protect from deadly drought and make it on land, plants developed complicated inner plumbing

Elise Cutts

Neurology

A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have about the New Alzheimer’s Drug Lecanemab

What a patient and family members can expect from the recently approved drug lecanemab—and what more is needed to help stop Alzheimer’s dementia

Gary Stix