Health & Medicine

Excellent discoverer of heat and touch sensors

Heat pain and pressure sensors. (Image: nobelprize.org) We feel cold and heat, strong pressure and a gentle touch through our skin - but how?...

Corona jab and flu jab can be safely combined

This may save you a trip to the doctor in the future. Now that everyone has had the chance to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the...

Can a Simple Vitamin Protect Against Alzheimer’s?

Experiments with tiny roundworms give researchers hope. Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny worm that lives in the soil, but can also be found a lot...

Dutch scientists unravel the mystery of identical twins

For the first time, researchers have found a biological cause for the birth of identical twins. And that is a breakthrough, says researcher Dorret Boomsma....

Artificial intelligence may help find SARS-CoV-2 successor

Which viruses should we fear and fight tooth and nail to prevent another pandemic? Scientists often find it difficult to estimate, but artificial...

Pandemic has a major impact on life expectancy

Some countries have not seen life expectancy decline as sharply since World War II as it is today due to COVID-19. According to a new...

Afraid of spiders? Your smartphone can help!

Scientists have a augmented realityapp developed with which people with arachnophobia can tackle their fear. And that app works! Spider fear or arachnophobia is...

Is the ‘placebo effect’ just a myth?

Some people deliberately take placebo pills in the belief that they will get them better. But researchers warn against this risky development. Many people...

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