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Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse

An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredApr 19th, 2024

Social media as a teaching tool: South African teachers talk about the new reality

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a shift towards the use of social media platforms in teaching. The South African Department of Basic Education, for one, instructed all schools to adopt online teaching and learning to save the 2020 school year, disr.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024

Is COVID-19 infecting wild animals? Researcher test species from bats to seals to find out

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have found coronavirus infections in pet cats and dogs and in multiple zoo animals, including big cats and gorillas. These infections have even happened when staff were using personal protective e.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 11th, 2024

Why Tampa Is So Vulnerable to Hurricane Milton

Tampa, Florida is the most vulnerable US city to hurricane damage. Delays to floodwater defenses and relentless development only made the situation worse......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 10th, 2024

Scientists discover novel series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors for potential new COVID-19 treatments

New research from The Wistar Institute's Salvino lab, led by professor Joseph Salvino, Ph.D., has identified a novel series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors that may lead to potential new COVID-19 treatments that—according to preclinical testing—eff.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 8th, 2024

Air pollution inside Philadelphia"s subway is much worse than on the streets, study finds

The air quality in the City Hall subway station in downtown Philadelphia is much worse than on the sidewalks directly above the station. That is a key finding of our new study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 7th, 2024

Singapore families show high resilience during pandemic

A recent study by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) analyzing the resilience of Singaporean families during the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered significant findings that highlight how most families wi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 7th, 2024

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of "ant agriculture"

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which was abundant at the time as plants and animals were.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 6th, 2024

Study: Job embeddedness impacts voluntary turnover in the midst of job insecurity

During the Great Resignation, the United States experienced a significant uptick in voluntary employee resignations about one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. The early stages of the pandemic, however, were plagued by high unemployment. In order to s.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 4th, 2024

Wastewater Offers an Early Alarm System for Another Deadly Virus

A surveillance system proven during Covid-19 is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 4th, 2024

Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds

Liquified natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

If you're familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised. Any striking marketing claims in companies' ads about the gut benefits of a popular probiotic may be full.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive. We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of year.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

Celebrating the fungus among us: How fungi support, restore ecosystems

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts of a thriving ecosystem......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

Return-to-office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on

In recent months, many Canadian employers in both the public and private sectors have implemented return-to-office mandates, requiring workers that transitioned to remote or hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic to work in-person again......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine

Researchers have been working on mRNA flu vaccines since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but we may get one for bird flu first......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 3rd, 2024

The Gut Might Hold the Key to Treating Long Covid in Kids

A placebo-controlled study aims to test if treating gut issues can help children struggling with persistent Covid symptoms......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night

A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

Scientists inject bacteria into fungi to study endosymbiosis

Endosymbiosis is a fascinating biological phenomenon in which an organism lives inside another. Such an unusual relationship is often beneficial for both parties. Even in our bodies, we find remnants of such cohabitation: mitochondria evolved from an.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

Lab owner pleads guilty to faking COVID test results during pandemic

Ill-gotten millions bought a Bentley, Lamborghini, Tesla X, and crypto, among other things. The co-owner of a Chicago-based lab has pleaded guilty for his role in a COVID testing.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

Lab owner pleads guilty to faking COVID test results during pandemic

Ill-gotten millions bought a Bentley, Lamborghini, Tesla X, and crypto, among other things. Enlarge / Residents line up for COVID-19 testing on November 30, 2020 in Chicago. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson) The co-owner of.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024