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Fewer infants test positive for the coronavirus. Understanding why could help all of us
The initial data suggest that infants make up a small fraction of people who have tested positive for COVID-19. A ...
Why SARS disappeared in 2003 while the coronavirus keeps on spreading
The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a ...
As COVID rages, here’s now Notre Dame is bringing in-school instruction back
Hundreds of thousands of students will descend on campuses around the country in coming weeks, beginning their fall terms under ...
Star Wars inspired ‘electronic artificial skin’ can restore the sense of touch for prosthetic users
[A] device, dubbed ACES, or Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin, is made up of 100 small sensors and is about 1 ...
Back to normal by Christmas? By spring? COVID-19 eludes timelines
Many prominent business and political leaders downplayed the pandemic in its early stages. As a result, most business owners and ordinary citizens initially perceived ...
Do you have the virus? Wearable gadgets might provide clues
For the past three weeks I’ve worn an Oura ring, Fitbit, Garmin fitness band and Apple Watch, along with two ...
Mosquito relief: Grapefruit-scented natural insect repellent with nootkatone heading to stores
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had approved a new ingredient, called nootkatone, that repels and kills mosquitoes and ticks ...
Permanent readjustment: Why COVID-19 is here to stay
If there was ever a time when this coronavirus could be contained, it has probably passed. One outcome is now ...
‘Humans often do dumb things’: ‘Unsettling similarities’ between responses to COVID-19 and the flea-driven 14th century black death
The flea-driven plague, also known as the “Great Mortality,” overran Eurasia and North Africa from 1347 to 1353, killing tens ...
Video: Sperm are ‘spinners not swimmers’—because they are lopsided
Research by fertility scientists in the UK and Mexico challenges the accepted view of how sperm “swim”, suggesting that it ...
Swapping red meat for plant-based beef may cut cardiovascular disease risk
Swapping out red meat for certain plant-based meat alternatives can improve some cardiovascular risk factors, according to a new study ...
Medieval medicine resurrected: Could a 1,000 year old potion help fight bacterial infections?
Garlic, onion, wine, and a dash of bovine bile. It’s a veritable witch’s brew, but as a new Scientific Reports paper shows, this ...
‘Looks can be deceiving’: People with anorexia don’t always look scrawny or malnourished
[A]dolescents and young adults with disordered eating habits or outright eating disorders often go unrecognized by both parents and physicians ...
Are children as vulnerable to COVID as adults? Latest research says ‘yes’
Several studies and reports published in recent weeks found coronavirus infections among children of all ages at places ranging from ...
Organic food healthier? Nutritionist explains what the media get wrong time and again
For years, the organic versus conventional argument has fueled twitter wars, marketing schemes, and a hell of a lot of ...
12 lifestyle changes to cut risk from dementia
[A major] review identified the biggest known risk factors for dementia as smoking, excess alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, head injury, depression, hearing loss and exposure to air ...
Infographic: We know breastfeeding helps children. Now we know it helps mothers too
When a woman becomes pregnant, her risk of type 2 diabetes increases for the rest of her life, perhaps because ...
Sugar and processed foods undermine body’s response to exercise
[A] study, which involved rodents and people, suggests that eating a diet high in sugar and processed foods, which may ...
Older coronavirus victims 350 percent likelier to experience symptoms than 10-19 year olds
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a markedly low proportion of cases among children. Age disparities in observed cases could be ...
97,000 school-age children tested positive for COVID-19 in late July — most had no or mild symptoms
Pictures of packed school hallways in Georgia and news of positive tests on the first day of classes in Indiana ...
Zoanthropy: The curious case of the woman who believes she is a chicken
[A] 54-year-old woman, who had no history of drug or alcohol abuse, was found by her brother in her garden ...
How to make $2000: Volunteer to get a COVID-19 test vaccine
During the next two months, vaccine makers hope to recruit 60,000 Americans to roll up their sleeves to test the ...
Vaccines will be in short supply when developed. Here’s a way to prioritize who gets one
A preliminary plan devised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this spring gives priority to health care workers, then ...
COVID-19 conspiracy theories give people the feeling of being in control
A few weeks ago, I took an uncomfortable trip down the rabbit hole of Covid-19 conspiracy theory videos. As a newly ...
Another pandemic coming? Expanding land use boosts exposure to diverse zoonotic diseases, study finds
Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk ...
Covid-19 targets poor service workers in densely populated enclaves. Can we turn that around?
California is a large and complex state, and our coronavirus challenge, too, is anything but straightforward. In fact, the best way to ...
How church during COVID turned deadly: 91 infected, 2 dead in Ohio after attending a service
Gov. Mike DeWine said in a press briefing [August 4] that [a] worshiper attended a service at an undisclosed church ...
