Category: 4. Health

Clinicians have long noticed that people with…

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Arizona State University scientist Timothy Karr decided to find out why. What he discovered could help curb mosquito-borne diseases and manage crop pests. And that’s just the “tip of the iceberg,” he says.

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Wolbachia is a parasitic bacteria that lives inside insect cells. It infects at least two out of every five insect species. Since insects…

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Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to provide more.

The study reveals that mother wasps can remember the locations of up to nine separate nests at once, rarely making mistakes despite the fact nests are dug in bare sand containing hundreds belonging to other females.

Mothers feed their young in age order, adjusting the order if one…

The Haenyeo, or “women of the sea,” are a group of all-women extreme divers who work off the coast of Korea. They have spent their entire lives free-diving as much as 60 feet under the surface in the waters off Jeju Island, 50 miles south of mainland South Korea. The divers collect foodstuffs like abalone and seaweed from the seafloor, and do so while spending hours in the water every day, year round. There aren’t many divers left, because young people…

Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common tick-borne infection in the United States. That makeup might also be key to developing new treatments for the disease, researchers report in two studies published April 23 in Science Translational Medicine.

Somewhere between 90,000 and nearly 500,000 people are diagnosed and treated for…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans about the ever-increasing and potentially deadly recreational use of nitrous oxide products, particularly among young people.

Marketed with names like “Galaxy Gas” and “Miami Magic,” and often sold in steel cartridges known as “whippets,” these products are cheap and readily available at gas stations, convenience stores, smoke shops and major retail outlets, including Walmart. They’re also sold online.

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People seem to be cozying up to this latest TikTok trend. It’s called “cozymaxxing.” It’s short for either cozy maximalism or cozy maximization, because who has the time so say “imalism” or “mization.” This may sound like “looksmaxxing” but instead of trying to maximize your physical appearance cozymaxxing is about…