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Fifty years ago, Monty Python’s famous sketch, ‘The Ministry of Silly Walks,’ first aired. The sketch pokes fun at the inefficiency of government bureaucracy. It opens with the Minister (John Cleese) walks in a rather unusual manner to his work, the Ministry of Silly Walks, where Mr. Pudey (Michael Palin) is waiting for him. Based […]
Continue Reading →A new study reveals that the language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department (ED). A team of researchers provides more evidence that social media is often an unseen signal of medical distress and could be used to better understand the contexts in which patients seek care, […]
Continue Reading →A new study shows removing liability concerns slightly increases C-section procedures during childbirth. Source: C-sections: Moving beyond 'defensive medicine'
Continue Reading →Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. That’s more than four times the number of people affected today, and more than 12 times the number who would have been affected without industrial era […]
Continue Reading →Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors — e.g. articles (the), personal pronouns (she), or prepositions (on) — from content words — e.g. nouns (rainbow), verbs (to drive), or adjectives (green), according to researchers. Source: At 8 […]
Continue Reading →Scientists have developed powerful tools to unmask the diversity of amyloid fibrils, which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The scientists made the breakthrough by developing gold nanoparticles that combine with cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, to provide rapid and unprecedented images of fibrils. Source: Gold nanoparticles uncover amyloid fibrils
Continue Reading →Scientists have discovered that gorillas really are territorial — and their behavior is very similar to our own. Source: Gorillas display territorial behavior
Continue Reading →New research describes in detail the first locally-transmitted case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, in the USA, from a woman who had recently traveled to China and transmitted the infection to her husband. Source: Study details first known person-to-person transmission of new coronavirus in U.S.
Continue Reading →Newly published research provides the first analysis of potential targets for effective immune responses against the novel coronavirus. Researchers used existing data from known coronaviruses to predict which parts of SARS-CoV-2 are capable of activating the human immune system. Source: Scientists identify potential targets for immune responses to novel coronavirus
Continue Reading →Life is rife with patterns. It’s common for living things to create a repeating series of similar features as they grow: think of feathers that vary slightly in length on a bird’s wing or shorter and longer petals on a rose. Source: Scientists discover the mathematical rules underpinning brain growth
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