Slovakia plans to keeping using AstraZeneca despite pause
Slovakia’s health minister says he plans to keep AstraZeneca in the country’s vaccine arsenal, speaking a day after the country suspended use of the shots after...
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Taming the virus: US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of around 600 per day—the lowest level in 10 months—with the number of lives lost dropping...
New testing for bike helmets accounts for head injuries sustained at speed
A new method tests for the first time how well helmets protect against the commonest and worst cycling brain injuries: those sustained from motion
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90% accuracy
A low-cost, rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 developed by Penn Medicine provides COVID-19 results within four minutes with 90 percent accuracy. A paper published this week...
Kids place moral value on money
Children who learn that a dollar is ‘dirty’ are apprehensive to take it, preferring instead to accept a dollar that does not have a negative moral...
COVID-19: Discovery of the mechanisms of short- and long-term anosmia
Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. But the mechanisms involved had yet to be clarified....
Is it too risky to lift lockdown early in the UK? It depends on the kind of risk
On Sunday May 2, only one person in the UK died from COVID-19. It’s a remarkable achievement after a terrifying winter spike in the disease which...
COVID-19: Is obesity really more of a risk factor for men than women?
A new US study has added to the evidence that obesity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19. And in this paper, a particular finding has...
Remapping and realignment in the hippocampal formation predict context-dependent spatial behavior
Past neuroscience research has consistently highlighted the role of the hippocampal formation in contextual memory, the ability to remember specific contexts or environments. In this brain...
Early warning system to avert COVID-19 lockdowns
Scientists are developing a coronavirus early warning system that could prevent future lockdowns by combining data on vaccine uptake with wastewater testing.
