Doctors tested a common drug on COVID. The results are stunning

A widely available and affordable drug has been shown to be effective in treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients, according to a new international study led by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with King’s College London. The study analyzed data from almost 500 patients hospitalized with COVID-19…

Serie A: in campo Lecce-Bologna – Calcio – Ansa.it

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Fruit might be the surprising key to healthier lungs

Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The study was presented by Pimpika Kaewsri, a PhD student from the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at the University of Leicester, UK.…

New inhaler halves childhood asthma attacks

Findings from a trial comparing the real-world effectiveness of asthma inhalers could reshape how children with asthma are treated. In the first randomized controlled trial to investigate the use of a 2-in-1 inhaler as the sole reliever therapy for children aged 5 to 15, an international team found the combined…

The accidental discovery that forged the Iron Age

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the invention of iron. The work reanalyzed metallurgical remains from a site in southern Georgia: a 3000-year-old smelting workshop called…

Why “dry” oil wells aren’t really empty

A common problem with oil wells is that they can run dry even when sound-based measurements say there’s still oil there. A team from Penn State University used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer to add a time dimension to these seismic measurements, as well as to analyze how oil damps down…

Un proiettile consegnato in chiesa a don Patriciello – Notizie – Ansa.it

Un uomo, in fila per ricevere la Comunione nella chiesa del Parco Verde di Caivano, quando si è presentato davanti a don Maurizio Patriciello, gli ha consegnato – secondo quanto hanno ricostruito i Carabinieri – una busta con dentro un proiettile. L’uomo è stato bloccato dagli uomini della scorta di…

Serie A: in campo Roma-Verona – Calcio – Ansa.it

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Quantum chips just proved they’re ready for the real world

UNSW Sydney nano-tech startup Diraq has shown its quantum chips aren’t just lab-perfect prototypes – they also hold up in real-world production, maintaining the 99% accuracy needed to make quantum computers viable. Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, achieved this feat by teaming up with European nanoelectronics institute Interuniversity…

Living with purpose may protect your brain from dementia

Research into Blue Zones — regions of the world where people tend to live longer — shows that having a sense of purpose in life may help people live longer. Now, new research from UC Davis shows that having a sense of purpose in life may have another benefit as…

Sean Penn feroce suprematista bianco – Cinema – Ansa.it

Sean Penn entra nel cinema dei Warner Bros studios a passo calmo, in jeans e stivali, lo sguardo assorto, uno stuzzicadenti in bocca. Quando interviene, al termine dell’ultimo film di Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Una battaglia dopo l’altra’ che ha appena raccolto un lungo applauso, lo fa a voce bassa, quasi…

Autism may be the price of human intelligence

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. About one in 31 (3.2%) children in the United States has been identified with Autism Spectrum…