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Death counts fail to capture full mortality
effects of COVID-19, study finds
A study published in the Journal of Public Health
finds that for each person in the U.S. who died after
contracting COVID-19,...
Meditation for mind-control
He and collaborators conducted a large-scale
human study enrolling subjects in a weekly 8-week
course in simple, widely-practiced...
Sport and memory go hand in hand
Very often, right after a sporting exercise —
especially endurance such as running or cycling —
one feels physical...
Unraveling the genome in 3D-space
Breaks in our DNA, which can occur spontaneously
or result from irradiation or chemical insults, can
lead to severe problems...
Enrolling in health education courses
may help change student’s beliefs about
stress
A research team including Binghamton University
Health and Wellness Studies Lecturer Jennifer
Wegmann sought to evaluate...
Likely molecular mechanisms of SARS-
CoV-2 pathogenesis are revealed by
network biology
Such networks have been studied in organisms as
diverse as plants, humans and roundworms, and
they show a similarity to social...
Flood risks: More accurate data due to
COVID-19
A number of countries went into politically decreed
late hibernation at the onset of the Covid-19
pandemic. Many of those...
Weighted blankets can decrease
insomnia severity
Results of the randomized, controlled study show
that participants using the weighted blanket for four
weeks reported significantly...
Berry good news — new compound from
blueberries could treat inflammatory
disorders
IMAGE: A polyphenolic compound derived from
blueberry shows remarkable immunosuppressive
effects and can be useful...
Choanozoan and picozoan marine
protists are probably virus eaters
IMAGE: Sampling seawater in the Gulf of Maine.
view more Credit: Ramunas Stepanauskas and
coauthors Viruses...
New model — Antarctic ice loss expected
to affect future climate change
IMAGE: Antarctica seen from the R/V Laurence M.
Gould. A team of climate scientists at UMass
Amherst and Woods Hole...
Sky islands and tropical alpine
sunflowers at risk of disappearing
IMAGE: Páramo with Espeletia plants view more
Credit: Andrés Cortés, Santiago Madriñán and
coauthors As...
Sweet success: Heavy consumption of
sugary beverages declined in the US from
2003 to 2016
IMAGE: The proportion of heavy SSB drinkers (?
500 kcal/day) declined significantly among both
children and adults...
Climate pledges ‘like tackling COVID-19
without social distancing’
Current global pledges to tackle climate change are
the equivalent of declaring a pandemic without a
plan for social distancing,...
Provide shady spots to protect butterflies
from climate change, say scientists
IMAGE: Latin name: Gonepteryx rhamni. view more
Credit: Andrew Bladon Researchers have
discovered significant...
A new strategy of cell entry for some
types of parvoviruses
IMAGE: Peter Tijssen is a professor emeritus at
INRS who specializes in molecular virology. view
more Credit:...
Covid-19 restrictions could mean elderly
in care homes have no visitors for a
YEAR, Age UK warns
FEBRUARY – SAGE scientists warned Government
‘very early on’ about the risk to care homes
Britain’s...
Sweden’s second wave? Cases rise in
Stockholm prompting concerns over
supposed ‘herd immunity’
Sweden is debating enforcing new coronavirus
restrictions on Stockholm amid a small spike in
infections. The country’s...
British Medical Association calls for
government to make masks compulsory
INSIDE offices
Face masks should be made compulsory inside
offices to halt a devastating second wave
of coronavirus, leading medics warned...
Government’s warning of 50,000 cases a
day in October is based on few hundred
positive cases
The Government’s claim Britain could face 50,000
coronavirus infections a day was based on studies
involving just hundreds...
Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris
Whitty faced backlash over ‘herd
immunity’, emails show
Do tougher rules REALLY work?
Glasgow’s coronavirus outbreak has
slowed dramatically