An explosion tore through a cinema in eastern Congo, wounding 10 people. We examine the pipeline of new drugs aiming to dull pain without creating different problems. Of all the weird sentences made possible by the internet, this may be one of the strangest.
Our correspondent reports from
eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousands, and forced more than five million people from their homes--with no end in sight. Researchers are searching for better
analgesics: ones that reduce pain without the risk of addiction or corollary physiological damage. And a contest in southern Alaska to select the internet’s favourite
fat bear.