Verizon is exiting the media business, announcing Monday that it’s selling the unit for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
Rebel Wilson got ‘some bad news’ and feels those struggling with fertility
Rebel Wilson had to share over the weekend.
Trying to understand the use of drugs by women farmers in Nigeria’s Adamawa State
A national survey on drug use in Nigeria published in 2019 shows that about 14.3 million Nigerians between 15 and 65 years have used psychoactive substances for non-medical purposes. One out of every four drug users is a woman.
A protein that guards against prostate cancer, fatty liver disease, diabetes
FIU Biomolecular Sciences Institute researchers investigating a protein they hoped would be a tumor suppressor instead discovered it was responsible for protecting people from so much more.
New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries
Around the world, 71 million people have been infected with the hepatitis C virus. The primary route of infection is through direct contact with another person’s blood. This means the virus can be transmitted in a number of ways, including intravenous drug use, tattooing, contaminated blood or blood products and surgical procedures.
System to deliver electrically activated glue for sealing defects in broken blood vessels
A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter.
Corporal punishment in childhood directly linked to involvement in partner violence in adulthood
Intimate partner violence is indisputably a crisis in Australia.
How adults use facial cues to judge children’s behavior and intentions
It’s a common movie scene: A teacher walks into a mess and yells at the innocent child while the guilty one, with the face of an angel, stands silently nearby.
Being overweight or underweight could increase your risk of severe COVID-19
The first large study to report the effect of bodyweight on risk of worse outcomes from COVID-19 across the full range of body-mass index (BMI) is published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal.
To save the planet, phone makers need to bring back removable batteries
Smartphones have an astonishingly large carbon footprint, and most of it stems from the fact that they don’t have swappable batteries anymore.