“Structurally sound” historic vessels discovered beneath fishpond

Two preserved wooden vessels have been discovered in Thuận Thành, a town in the Vietnamese province of Bắc Ninh. According to a press statement issued by the Department of Culture,…

Bystander PTSD Alters Brain Differently Than Direct Trauma

Summary: New research reveals that witnessing trauma triggers unique brain changes, distinct from those caused by experiencing trauma firsthand. The study found that indirect trauma leads to different protein degradation…

Verbal Fluency Might Predict Human Longevity

Summary: A recent study reveals a surprising link between longevity and verbal fluency—the ability to effectively recall and utilize vocabulary. Researchers analyzed cognitive data from the Berlin Aging Study, involving…

Combating the measles threat means examining the reasons for declining vaccination rates

Illustration of the virus which causes measles. Credit: CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHES Measles was supposedly eradicated in Canada more than a quarter century ago. But today, measles is…

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for…

New AI tool visualizes a cell’s ‘social network’ to help treat cancer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based neural network can rapidly analyze and interpret millions of cells from a patient sample, predicting molecular changes in the tissue. It…

Survey shows nearly 1 in 10 unsure if they have long COVID

Credit: Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels Almost one in 10 people (9.1%) in England think they could have long COVID but aren’t sure, according to a new analysis of NHS England…

Bulgar-Golden Horde period complex discovered in Alekseevsky

Archaeological research in the Alekseevsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan have discovered a Bulgar-Golden Horde period complex. Following the collapse of Old Great Bulgaria during the 7th century, the…

Cells lining your skin and organs can generate electricity when injured − potentially opening new doors to treating wounds

Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts in…

Researchers find possible link between medication and unexpected blood clots

Illustration of the hypothetical connection, based on our results, between JAK–STAT signaling, miRNAs (miR26b-5p, miR21-5p, miR15b-5p, miR103a-3p, and miR106a-5p), cyclins (Cyclin D: CCND3, and CCND1), cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs: CDKN1A, CDK2AP1,…