Tag: Research
The YouTube Rabbit Hole Is Nuanced
Perhaps you have an image in your mind of people who get brainwashed by YouTube.You might picture your…
Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating
The weight-loss idea is quite appealing: Limit your eating to a period of six to eight hours each…
Moderna Says Trial Suggests Redesigned Vaccines Protect Against Variants
Moderna announced preliminary results Tuesday from its study of a coronavirus vaccine intended to protect against variants, saying…
India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic…
We Have a Creativity Problem
To explore the subjects’ explicit views, the researchers had them fill out a survey rating their feelings about…
Why a Coronavirus-Flu ‘Twindemic’ May Never Happen
The notion of that there is a sort of interplay between viruses first emerged in the 1960s, when…
Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command
SAN FRANCISCO — At OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious artificial intelligence labs, researchers are building technology…
How Covid and Diabetes Collide in a Public Health Train Wreck
Diabetes is an insidious disease that significantly increases the risks of premature blindness, stroke, and circulatory and neurological…
Ivermectin Does Not Reduce Risk of Covid Hospitalization, Large Study Finds
The anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which has surged in popularity as an alternative treatment for Covid-19 despite a lack…
Many Teens Report Emotional and Physical Abuse by Parents During Lockdown
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on adolescents’ mental health during the coronavirus pandemic…
Cancer Patients Are at High Risk of Depression and Suicide, Studies Find
One day years ago, during her training in neurology, Dr. Corinna Seliger-Behme met a man with end-stage bladder…
Bobcats With a Taste for Python Eggs Might Be the Guardians of Florida’s Swamp
The voracious appetite of the invasive Burmese python is causing Florida’s mammal and bird populations to plummet. With…