<p>Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library</p>
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Found near Australia, <i>Solenostomus snuffleupagus</i> is a shaggy swimmer that closely resembles Mr. Snuffleupagus from <i>Sesame Street</i>.
Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTSD epidemic, floatation tanks are being deployed to the island to help restore people's mental health
Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTSD epidemic, flotation tanks are being deployed to the island to help restore people's mental health
<p>En omfattande analys av globala trender sedan 1980-talet visar att ökningen av obesitas har bromsat in i många höginkomstländer. Det handlar om en stabilisering, och i vissa fall även nedgång, dock inte i länder med lägre inkomster. Det visar en studie i tidskriften Nature.</p>
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In response to an Ebola outbreak, the U.S. has banned entry for foreign travelers who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the…
Scientists recently gathered for a conference called Love, Actually and in Theory, but didn't settle on a definition of the topic at hand
Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealing new ways to cope with these challenges and find hope instead of despair
<p>As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less safe from viral outbreaks than before COVID</p>
<p>Att spela dataspel är populärt. Över hälften av alla barn och unga i åldrarna 9–18 år spelar, liksom nästan hälften av alla i åldrarna 16–84 år, enligt de svenska undersökningarna Ungar och Medier 2025 och Swelogs 2021. Förutom att vara roligt och avkopplande kan dataspelande även ha positiva effekter på exempelvis reaktionstid, öga-handkoordination och uppmärksamhet. […]</p>
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<p>The asteroid will swing by Earth on Monday and be close enough to be visible using an amateur telescope</p>
At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/" target="_blank">What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>
States with abortion bans are trending away from evidence-based miscarriage treatment that includes mifepristone, compared with states without bans.
The rejection may make the pharma firms remaining lawsuits more difficult.
<p>Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak </p><p>The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases, experts have warned, as health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.gpmb.org/">Global Preparedness Monitoring Board</a> (GPMB) said in a report <a href="https://gpmb.org/reports/report-2026">published on Monday</a> that “as infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent they are also becoming more damaging”, warning that pandemic risk is outpacing investments in preparedness and “the world is not yet meaningfully safer”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/infectious-diseases-hantavirus-ebola-more-frequent-damaging-pandemic-outbreak">Continue reading...</a>
Why have so many people become fixated on protein? Donald Layman is one of the people behind the research showing the benefits of getting more protein in your diet, but he thinks things have gone too far and wants to set the record straight
<p>Eight of the top 10 officials at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office</p>
<p>Fyra geologer har efter 15 år satt punkt för ett av de mest udda forskningsprojekten på Göteborgs universitet. I en <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemBody> Text där forskare beskriver vad de har undersökt, hur de gjorde och vad de kom fram till.&lt;br/&gt;En vetenskaplig artikel innehåller ...</div><div class=glossaryTooltipMoreLinkWrapper><a class=glossaryTooltipMoreLink href=https://forskning.se/ordlista/vetenskaplig-artikel/ >Läs mer</a></div>" href="https://forskning.se/ordlista/vetenskaplig-artikel/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">vetenskaplig artikel</a> går de igenom 141 spelfilmer med geologer.</p>
<p>– På vita duken är det ett riskfyllt arbete att vara geolog, en tredjedel dör innan filmen är slut, säger Erik Sturkell, geolog och forskningsledare.</p>
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<p>The article in Swedish: Stillahavsöarna som kämpar för att överleva A volcanic eruption in the north, recurring flooding and on top of that, a direct …</p>
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The question of whether to partner with Chinese firms — or see them as rivals — is tearing biotech apart, pitting peers and partners against one another
A little-known strain of Ebola virus is behind an ongoing health emergency, prompting researchers to call for the acceleration of vaccine candidates against such infections
While the thunderstorms in <em>The Legend of Zelda</em> defy physics, plenty of places on Earth experience extreme weather.
<p>Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet</p>
<p>Över en fjärdedel av Sveriges kommuner har krympt sedan år 2000. Samtidigt blir befolkningen i dessa kommuner allt äldre, medan antalet unga och personer i arbetsför ålder minskar. Trots det har kommunernas ekonomiska bärkraft hittills hållits uppe bättre än den demografiska utvecklingen tyder på eftersom fler i arbetsför ålder jobbar, visar en ny rapport. Men det kan vara på väg att ändras.</p>
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