Credit: Public Domain The parasite The parasite Toxoplasma is carried by a considerable part of the global human population. Currently, a study led by researchers at Stockholm University demonstrates how this microscopic parasite so effectively spreads in the body, for example, to the brain. The parasite infects immune cells and steals their identity. The research study...
The earth has nine years to avert climate catastrophe. However, we are still pumping out record levels of pollution. A chimney from the Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, New Jersey, on April 22nd, 2022. Credit: Kena Betancur / VIEWpress The growing climate catastrophe The globe is rapidly coming close to a current level of climate catastrophe...
Morning light assists keep our biological rhythms on the right track. Daylight saving time throws that off. Daylight saving time has finished, and many Americans have turned their clocks back an hour. On November 6, every state in the United States other than Hawaii and the majority of Arizona changed from daylight saving time, or DST,...
A ceremony on Saturday marked the end of a long repatriation process Leola One Feather, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, observes as Native American artifacts are photographed in Barre, Massachusetts. Credit: Associated Press A small Massachusetts museum is returning approximately 150 items, some linked to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, to the Lakota Sioux peoples....
Credit: Momentis Surgical Momentis Surgical ™ announced that Medical City Plano acquired the Anovo ™ Surgical System for transvaginal benign gynecological procedures, including benign hysterectomies. They are the first medical facility in Texas to use this system. Anovo ™ Surgical System The Anovo System is the first and only FDA-authorized surgical robot with miniature humanoid-shaped arms, with...
Credit: IAA ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFIED AN ENTIRE SENTENCE IN CANAANITE ENGRAVED ON AN IVORY COMB THAT DATES FROM 1700 BC. The comb was uncovered at Tel Lachish in Israel back in 2017 by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and Southern Adventist University in the United States. At the time, the shallow nature of the...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, collaborating with an associate from Myunggok Medical Research Center, has found that test mice deliberately overfed to make them obese put up a more robust immune reaction against the herpes simplex virus two than did mice fed usually. In their...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt pertaining to the living sable and roan antelopes. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800. Only 34 years after it was first explained scientifically, making it the just large African mammal species that have become extinct in...
Entangled drumheads. Credit: Aalto University New researches expand the boundaries of physics, reaching quantum entanglement in larger systems. Perhaps, even getting around the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Recently released research pushes the boundaries of crucial concepts in quantum mechanics. Studies from 2 various groups utilized little drums to demonstrate that quantum entanglement. This is an effect generally...
Stem cells are the blank slate on which all specialised cells in our bodies are built and they are the foundation for every organ and tissue in the body. Maturing and resisting it has long been a prominent point in traditional and modern literary works in human history. From the unfortunate Qin Shi Huang's exploration...
