Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Ashes to ashes

The Natural History Museum in London is to return the remains of 8 aboriginal people to the Australian government. The remains include the skull of an aboriginal person thought to have been illegally exported to Britain in 93. The rest comprise the remains of 7 indigenous individuals from Tasmania and will be returned after a three-month period of study by scientists. Museum director Michael Di...

Astrophysics. Ashes to ashes: the inner lives of neutron stars.

Ashes to ashes: the history of smoking and health

When I read Richard Doll's and Bradford Hill's paper in the British Medical Journal of 30 September 1950 on smoking and lung cancer, I thought that was the end of the matter; the evidence was overwhelming. When, a few years later, they reported their prospective findings on doctors addressed "to the survivors" there was nothing more to be said. Everyone would stop smoking, lung cancer incidence...

The Left: Ashes to Phoenix

Ashes to ashes: thermal contact burns in children caused by recreational fires.

Recreational open fires are an important and preventable cause of burn. In contrast to adults, who often sustain flame burns, children are at higher risk of thermal contact burns caused by hot embers many hours after the fire was first lit. Cases of thermal contact injury in children due to recreational fires were reviewed and the potential of a small charcoal fire to cause burns over a prolong...