Humans began to develop systems of reading and writing only within the past few thousand years. Our reading abilities set us apart from other animal species, but a few thousand years is much too short a timeframe for our brains to have evolved new areas specifically devoted to reading. To […]
Why I’m going back to the office even though I’m 68 and ‘vulnerable’, by Channel 4 boss Dorothy Byrne Aged 68, I am, like millions of people in their 60s, still working. And, also like millions in this age group, I have an underlying health condition — an auto-immune disease. So, […]
As the school year approaches and flu season looms on the horizon, the U.S. continues to battle a worsening coronavirus pandemic. No one can predict how the pandemic will play out in the fall, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said today. “I do not know…nor can anyone know what […]
Germany trembles, whether it is made of a second Corona-shaft. Of Saxony, the head of the government Michael Kretschmer says now, this was a long time ago. The combat flap “amazingly well”. The second wave of Infection of the coronavirus pandemic has arrived, according to the Saxon Minister President, Michael […]
The best footballers (soccer players) have a high degree of passion and grit. “These factors appear to be extremely important for getting good at the sport,” says professor and first author Hermundur Sigmundsson at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) Department of Psychology. A research group has studied […]
CHICAGO—Sweating in the heat of a late afternoon sun, Brandi biked up to a mobile drug treatment van in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood and asked for an assortment of needles. “Do you need Narcan?” Nikki Carter, an outreach worker, asked while leaning out the van’s window. “I have some, but […]
In the Medical Image Processing Lab, Dimitri Van De Ville and Thomas Bolton have studied the impact that computational imaging has on cognitive and clinical neuroscience by reviewing more than one hundred articles. How are human behavior and brain activity linked? That question has been eating away at Thomas Bolton […]
Today a report was released that calls for the use of research evidence on the optimal implementation of public health interventions for COVID-19 in varied global settings. In the absence of a vaccine and community-based treatment we are reliant on public health measures to stop this pandemic. From how to […]
Keeping it real! Drew Barrymore gives her fitness regimen her all — even while quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic. Drew Barrymore’s Body Evolution: See How She’s Changed “I eat really clean and healthy, and I do an hour of Pilates at least four days a week,” the Santa Clarita Diet […]
The United States has formalized its intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 6, 2021. WHO is a United Nations body devoted to coordinating international public health efforts, including the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. President Donald Trump first said he would withdraw the […]