Thousands of years ago, across the Eastern Mediterranean, several Bronze Age civilizations took a distinct turn for the worse around the same time. Both the Ancient Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire collapsed, and there was widespread societal crisis in the ancient Near East and the Aegean Sea, manifesting in declining populations, destruction, a … Read more
Over the course of a year, a man’s voice became progressively hoarser and his speech became shrill and grating, but he didn’t know why. On examining the man, doctors discovered the reason: fungi were growing in his throat. According to the report of the man’s case, published Thursday August 4 in the newspaper JAMA Otorhinolaryngology–Head … Read more
When babies in the African countries of Guinea-Bissau and Uganda received the TB vaccine, something remarkable happened. Instead of the vaccine only protecting against the target bacterium – Myocbacterium tuberculosis – the TB vaccine offered broad protection against a range of unrelated infections, including respiratory infections and serious complications such as sepsis. Australian researchers have … Read more
In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under cover of darkness, negative thoughts have a way of drifting through your mind, and as you lie awake staring at the ceiling, you might start craving guilty pleasures, like a cigarette or a high-carb meal. . There is plenty … Read more
Preservation of DNA in the teeth of humans dating back as far as 1,500 years has revealed the ancient origins of the ubiquitous strain of the herpes virus that causes cold sores. Genomic data suggest that herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which today infects around 3.7 billion people worldwide, emerged and proliferated around 5,000 … Read more
AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person had been ‘cured’ of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients who are also battling cancer may not bring comfort to the tens of millions of people living with the virus in the world. world. The 66-year-old, dubbed the “City of Hope” patient after the California … Read more
A trial spanning more than 20 years and nearly 1,000 participants worldwide has found an important result: people with a disease that puts them at higher risk of developing certain cancers may reduce the risk of some of these cancers by more than 60%, simply by adding more resistant starch to their diet. In fact, … Read more
When the story of the rise of robots is written, perhaps it could be in the first chapter: a seven-year-old boy had his finger broken by a robotic opponent during a game of chess in Moscow . There is some debate as to what exactly happened, but it appears the youngster made a move faster … Read more
For millions of people around the world, salvation after long periods of dark thoughts and oppressive feelings comes in pill form, with each dose doing its part to ensure that the balance of a humble neurotransmitter called serotonin remains relatively under control. control. Despite their popularity as a treatment for mood disorders, most of the … Read more
When we dream, something mysterious happens in our brain – we experience something similar to wakefulness, but also very different from wakefulness, and scientists are still trying to unravel exactly what is going on in this intermediate state. . Now another clue has been uncovered. A new study has found that a crucial feature of … Read more
