We’re cooler than we used to be. Literally – human body temperatures have dropped.
The Wall Street Journal reports that since the average human body temperature of 98.7 degrees F was first established, the average human has gotten taller, […]
medicine
The keto diet could protect against flu.
Science Immunology has a study that shows a low-carb, high-fat diet similar to Atkins and other keto diets seems to confer protection against flu and […]
Aspirin against air pollution? Really?
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air […]
CDC report: One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time
TW, as they say. New Scientist has some hard numbers on some difficult truths, offering data on just how many women lost their virginity in […]
Anti-aging electrotherapy zaps earlobes to reset nerves.
Eurekalert has details on a new anti-aging system that, according to University of Leeds researchers, resets older folks’ autonomic nervous system by stimulating the vagus […]
Science Art: X-Ray Lab, cartoon from Resonance: Journal of Scientific Education, August 1996.
Click to embiggen It’s funny, see? See? This cartoon appeared in Resonance between an article called “Genetics to Genetic Algorithms: Solution to Optimisation Problems Using […]
A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.
The New York Times pits man against machine in a CT-scan interpretation challenge – and the machine won. An AI got fewer false positives and […]
We’ve got a bedside bioprinter to replace your injured skin directly on you.
Science Daily passes the word from Wake Forest about medical engineers who’ve come up with a functional bioprinter that can replace real skin layer by […]
Diet drugs can prevent malaria and encephalitis – by making mosquitos less hungry.
Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs: Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need […]
Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse
The University of British Columbia, via Science Daily, wants us to know that they’ve taken stem cells and used them to grow perfect little blood […]
SONG: Forgotten
SONG: “Forgotten”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Dec. 2018, “‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction “, as used in the post “Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. […]
Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of […]
Cut out cutting out the salt
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase your […]
Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.
Can’t beat Science News‘ subhead for this story, which cautions us, if we want to avoid the meningitis-like symptoms, to “wash produce carefully and not […]
Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.
Science Alert tells us more about the researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch and their subjects – young pigs who had successful, non-rejected transplants […]