Popping toys, the latest fidget craze, might reduce stress for adults and children alike
The newest fidget craze is popping toys. Adults and kids all over the world have been buying up this endlessly reusable version of a longtime favorite...
Category: Health
Ireland eases pandemic restrictions
Ireland on Monday lifted domestic travel restrictions and began a phased reopening of non-essential retailers in the most significant loosening of pandemic curbs so far this...
Evidence suggests COVID vaccines reduce transmission: How it works
Since COVID-19 vaccines began rolling out across the world, many scientists have been hesitant to say they can reduce transmission of the virus.
Norway’s committee recommends dropping AstraZeneca, J&J jabs
An expert committee set up by Norway’s government to evaluate AstraZeneca’s and Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccines said on Monday that both should be abandoned over...
Czechs massively relax restrictions, honor COVID-19 victims
The Czech Republic was massively relaxing its coronavirus restrictions on Monday as the hard-hit nation paid respect to nearly 30,000 dead.
Serotonin transporters increase when depression fades, study shows
Low levels of serotonin in the brain are seen as a possible cause of depression and many antidepressants act by blocking a protein that transports serotonin...
Small behavioral changes determine success or complete failure of epidemic control
What does fluid physics have to do with the spreading of the coronavirus? The newest findings about the epidemic come from Physics Professor Björn Hof and...
Research challenges decades-old understanding of how we hear sound
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair cells of the ear, which convert sounds into nerve...
Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification requiring no programming
A research group led by Dr. Hideyuki Kobayashi at Toho University Omori Medical Center in Tokyo developed an AI-assisted image classifier that provides scores for histological...
How proteins control information processing in the brain
A complicated interaction between proteins is needed for information to pass from one nerve cell to the next. Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)...
