Underwater archaeologists from the International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar have discovered a cargo of brass trumpets at the wreck site of a 16th-century ship. The ship sank off…
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‘State of health care for women is in a fragile place’—Florida women are dying from preventable causes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy complications and mental health conditions, according to a new national scorecard…
Some have called this area a birthing ‘desert.’ A nurse midwife is working to change that
Credit: SHVETS production from Pexels Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child. Logan was determined to have her…
UK teenagers get two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods—new study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Humans have been processing food for thousands of years. While some processing can increase food’s safety and shelf-life, consuming lots of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is linked…
Summer COVID surge isn’t cause for alarm, experts say
Credit: CC0 Public Domain President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week became prime examples of the nation’s newest COVID-19 wave, and although it’s unclear…
3,800-year-old textile dyed using insects found in desert cave
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have discovered the earliest known example in Israel of red-dyed textiles made using insects. The…
Research shows spike gene mutations do not correlate with increased SARS-CoV-2 variant severity
A visual representation of the novel in silico methodology used in the study: prediction of protein structure, molecular docking simulations, and statistical analysis of computational metrics. Credit: UNC Charlotte New…
Single women in Australian aged care need more funding as new data show widows living longer
Temporal plots of average lengths of stay at an aged care across various covariates: uncensored data over 2008–2018. a Year. b Sex. c Age. d State. e Preferred language. f…
Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops
Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in…
Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices
High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for…
