Nurses in Britain are prepared to strike until Christmas if they cannot reach a deal with the government on pay, the leader of the country’s main nursing union said on…
Category: Humans
To What Extent Are We Ruled by Unconscious Forces?
Summary: Unconscious mechanisms that occur as a result of neural activity set us up for actions we are going to take. This happens before we are consciously aware of the…
Ancient Greek temple discovery sheds new light on ritual activities in ancient Paestum |
Archaeologists excavating in ancient Paestum have uncovered a trove of artefacts, shedding new insights into ritual activities in a recently discovered temple. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on…
Disturbed sleep may partially explain long COVID breathlessness
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A major UK study has discovered that the disturbed sleep patterns in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 was likely to be a driver of breathlessness. The study…
Potential ‘game-changer’ in diagnosing Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A certain protein builds up in the brains of most Parkinson’s patients, a study confirmed on Thursday using a new technique hailed as a potential “game-changer”…
Archaeologists uncover ritual landscape connected to ancient Andean cults
Archaeologists conducting a study in the Carangas region of highland Bolivia have discovered a ritual landscape connected with the Andean cults of wak’a (sacred mountains, tutelary hills, and mummified ancestors).…
Multidrug-resistant bacteria found in 40% of supermarket meat samples
Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study. E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also highly prevalent,…
Major genetic study reveals how antibiotic resistance varies according to where you live, demographics and diet
A genetic study analyzing the microbiome (bacteria in the gut) of a large nationally representative sample of the Finnish population finds that geographic, demographic, diet, and lifestyle factors are driving…
Scientists find mutations, say threat is still low
Municipal workers collect dead pelicans on Santa Maria beach in Lima, Peru, Nov. 30, 2022, as thousands of birds died in November along the Pacific of Peru from bird flu,…
Study of cerebral blood vessels uncovers potential new drug targets for treating stroke
In the inset, the small blood vessels in the brain, i.e. the cerebral microvasculature, can be seen at a higher magnification stained in red and the molecules that weaken the…
