Author: “Smartphone use in the evening, tablet use after bedtime, and television use in the evening were all correlated with the decline of sperm concentration.“ DARIEN, Ill. — Numerous studies link smartphone or tablet use at night to trouble falling asleep. Now, a new study finds yet another compelling reason to avoid such gadgets before bed — at…
Scientists around the world agree that we are currently facing a climate crisis in which global heating is threatening wildlife and primary resources. This crisis also affects humans by impacting the spread of infectious diseases. In this feature, we look at one such prominent example: the spread of the West Nile virus.Because of the new…
Obesity is not an independent risk for women, according to a new study, perhaps because their fat is distributed differently.Medical workers prepared to transport the body of a patient who died of Covid-19 at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston.Credit...Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesAug. 14, 2020The coronavirus has been an unpredictable foe from the start. It…
A massive antibody study in England has found that 3.4 million people, or 6 percent of the country’s population, have contracted the coronavirus.The study of over 100,000 volunteers, which the government billed as the largest survey of its kind, indicated the seriousness of the outbreak varied among demographics and different areas across the country.London, with…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…