As a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no pain. “I couldn’t feel anything. My hands and feet were numb,” she says. “I’d burn them but wouldn’t be able to tell.” Her arms would sometimes become horribly swollen, and then there were the white spots dotting her body. Without treatment, … Read more
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Amongst women who experience recurrent pregnancy loss, around 20% test positive for a specific antibody that targets the mother’s own body. A Kobe University-led research team now found a treatment that drastically increases these women’s chances of carrying to full-term without complications. Recurrent pregnancy loss is a condition of women who have lost two or … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The actor Gillian Anderson has just released a book of sexual fantasies. Titled Want, it catalogs a diverse range of fantasies submitted anonymously by women from around the world. It is not the first to do so. In 1973, American author Nancy Friday published My Secret Garden, a volume that provoked … Read more
Map As September nights cool and lengthen, the constellation of Pisces, the fishes, emerges in the eastern sky. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 9.30pm BST on 30 September, shortly after the full constellation has risen above the horizon. As the autumn proceeds, the constellation will rise earlier and earlier. Pisces … Read more
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Bruno Fernandes said his tackle on James Maddison was “never a red card” after the Manchester United captain was sent off in the … Read more
With the global population ageing rapidly, sarcopenia, a condition that affects millions of older adults and severely diminishes their quality of life, is emerging as an urgent public health issue. Now, a new discovery by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School could lead to improved treatments for the condition. In the study, published in the journal … Read more
Average spectrum of J1023 normalized to the emission of the continuum. The emission lines studied in this work are highlighted. Credit: Messa et al., 2024. Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from Italy and Spain have carried out high-temporal-resolution optical spectroscopic observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar designated PSR J1023+0038. Results of the observational … Read more
More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”. The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse … Read more
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