Joyce Yang 24 September 2024 9:00am It’s ten in the evening. My finger hovers above the send button on my keyboard. I’ve composed a cover letter for my dream job. Now I just need to submit it – what will my future (fingers crossed) boss say? Hesitating, I feel my heart lurch to my throat. Then I finally click send. The boss has a funny profile photo: a unicorn with rainbow hair and pleading eyes holding a pink heart in a background of more little hearts. Just as I begin to question her...

According to scientists, miracles can happen. In a recent study conducted on autistic people, researchers successfully “reversed” the autism of two twin girls, reducing their symptoms to an “indistinguishable level” by way of an intervention programme. I had to read the post twice to make sure it wasn’t an AI-generated clickbait meme, and it wasn’t – it was a real report by real scientists from the real University of Maryland. “Oh boy,” I thought. “This is going to blow up”. And it did. The...