Archaeologists have found a marble statue of Apollo Sauroctonos, also known as the “Lizard Killer”, during excavations of an Etruscan and Roman spa at San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany.…
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New Treatment for COVID-Induced Smell Loss
Summary: A new study presents a promising treatment for restoring the sense of smell in long-COVID patients. The study explores the effectiveness of CT-guided stellate ganglion block, a minimally invasive…
We need more humanists in climate campaigning
Climate advocacy is overly dominated by scientists and engineers and is weakened by the lack of historians, philosophers and artists As Cop28 draws near, I’m preparing with different climate justice…
Treasure hoard of Silesian bracteates found in Szprotawa
Archaeologists conducting excavations in the area of a former burgage plot in Szprotawa, Poland, have uncovered a treasure hoard of around 100 to 150 Silesian bracteate coins. A burgage was…
Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than scientists realized, study shows
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it’s more than twice as likely to contribute to premature deaths as…
Physicists find evidence of exotic charge transport in quantum material
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain True to form, a “strange metal” quantum material proved strangely quiet in recent quantum noise experiments at Rice University. Published this week in Science, the measurements…
Experimental proof of hopfions in crystals reveals new tech possibilities.
Newswise — Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have become a hot and challenging research topic in recent years. In a study published in Nature today, the first experimental evidence is…
Partisan Media Bias Shapes AI Sentiment
Summary: Researchers uncovered how partisan media sentiment influences public perception of artificial intelligence (AI). They analyzed over 7,500 articles from both liberal and conservative media, finding that liberal-leaning media exhibit…
Researchers claim vitamin supplements and new technology can help prevent secondary stroke
Credit: Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.2147/PGPM.S426421 A team of researchers, including one from the University of Maine, argue that vitamin supplements can help prevent secondary strokes. They also…
