Credit: CC0 Public Domain New Zealand’s incoming conservative government will jettison world-leading measures to stub out smoking, new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed Monday, in a move described by health…
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China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
A man carriers a child walk out from a crowded holding room of a children’s hospital in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2023. A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that…
Societal polarization regarding vaccinations found to be distorting accuracy of people’s recall of pandemic
Biased recall of pandemic perceptions and behaviors in study 1. Results of a linear regression predicting the individual recall of past perceptions on the basis of actual past ratings (x…
Truncated conical tombs found in Chapultepec Forest
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have uncovered 3,000-year-old truncated conical tombs on the edge of the Chapultepec Forest. Chapultepec Forest is one of the largest…
WHO sounds alarm on mpox cases in DR Congo
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization on Saturday reported 12,569 mpox cases and 581 related deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year to November 12, the…
Statue of Apollo “Lizard Killer” found at Etruscan and Roman spa
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.…
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…
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…
