12:01 p.m. 90 schools and faculties closed in France For a good two weeks, more than twelve million children and young people in France have been going back to school – but more than 90 facilities are currently closed due to Corona cases. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer spoke on Tuesday in Paris of a total … Read more
A group of Chinese scientists have studied the mechanism that links chronic stress and an increased likelihood of fractures. Experts conducted two experiments, during the first of which volunteers were asked to work in a confined space and conditions similar to a space station. The second experiment was an experiment on laboratory mice. As it … Read more
The corona measures have had a negative impact on the lifestyle of children. One in five children in the Netherlands has arrived as a result of the corona crisis. – They have exercised less and started eating more unhealthy snacks. This has emerged from research by paediatricians at Maastricht UMC +, in collaboration with other … Read more
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, said Saturday (12/9) that it had continued testing the Covid-19 vaccine after receiving the green light from supervisors. “Clinical trials for the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, have resumed in the UK following confirmation from the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority that it is safe to carry out,” the company said … Read more
Reindeer breeders in Siberia, Russia, have found the carcass of an extinct young cave bear, which has remained almost perfectly intact in ice. That reports the State University of Yakutsk Saturday. Cave bears became extinct more than ten thousand years ago. The cave bear was found on the island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky. The animal died … Read more
The American space agency NASA wants to purchase moon rocks and debris from commercial parties that pick up these rocks from the moon themselves. Earlier this week called out NASA private companies already set up to transport specific equipment to the moon. With this, the organization is working hard to involve commercial parties more closely … Read more
Canadian Public Health Agency data reported no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. This is an achievement for the first time since March 15, as reported by Reuters news agency, Saturday (12/9). Government data put the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Canada at 9,163 on September 11, the same as the … Read more
New rodent species were discovered in the Ethiopian mountains by an international team led by Josef Bryja from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The plateaus they explored have an inhospitable environment, yet many animals can be found there. Among them, in positions above three and a half thousand meters, … Read more
A new study has shown that immunity to coronavirus is short-lived if a patient has mild or no symptoms. According to Chinese scientists, the cells responsible for the long-term ability to fight the virus were not found in such people. And the absence of these cells calls into question the ability of patients to elicit … Read more
Nerve impulses from the sympathetic nervous system signal the immune system to attack the pancreas. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that synthesize insulin – the so-called beta cells. Without insulin, the cells of the body do not absorb glucose, whose blood levels rise dramatically. All this leads … Read more