Summary: Older people with mild cognitive impairment who have positive beliefs about aging are 30% more likely to regain normal cognitive function than those who are more pessimistic. Source; Yale…
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The Brain’s Support Cells May Play a Key Role in OCD
Summary: A newly discovered cellular mechanism that involves astrocytes, as well as neurons, appears to be involved in repetitive behaviors and OCD. Source: UCLA A type of cell usually characterized…
How Creativity Is Possible Despite Frustration
Summary: People can unlock their creative potential and enhance their creativity by embracing frustration and using it as a tool to inspire new methods and ideas. Source: Jacobs University In…
Evidence of prehistoric glue used 20,000-years-ago during the Palaeolithic period |
Researchers from UNED and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) have found evidence of adhesives being used to fasten lithic hunting heads to arrow shafts approximately 20,000-years-ago. In a paper,…
High status tomb discovered in Saqqara necropolis
A joint archaeological mission, led by researchers from the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands and the Egyptian Museum in Turin, have discovered a high-status tomb in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt.…
Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is filling ICUs this spring – a pediatric infectious disease specialist explains this little-known virus
In the year 2000, Dutch scientists went on a mission of exploration – not to discover lands or riches, but to identify unknown causes of acute respiratory infections. These illnesses,…
Archaeologists identify a submerged temple of the Nabataeans in Pozzuoli
Underwater archaeologists have identified a submerged temple of the Nabataeans, with the discovery of two marble altars from the Roman period. The temple remains are located off the coast of…
What causes motion sickness? Here’s how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brain
My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from the seafloor off the…
Millions of Americans at risk of losing free preventive care after Texas ruling on ACA
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act in place following the law’s third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision…
