You know when you’ve found the flow. You experience it when you are doing something that engages you so fully that time seems to fly by. Maybe it’s a job, or something completely different, like chess or computer games or football or shoveling snow. But flow is not just an expression that people use. It has been a concept used […]

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It is almost impossible nowadays to listen to the radio, watch TV or scroll through social media without being exposed to an advertisement telling us that all we need for a little happiness and love is a sugary drink or a fast-food snack. There’s nothing that a tasty, affordable, ready-made meal cannot fix, we are asked to believe. Over many […]

Rihanna has dazzled at the Oscars and stunned at the Super Bowl while pregnant with baby number 2, but we can’t help but admire her laidback pregnancy vibe even more. She recently shared a rare update about her second pregnancy with A$AP Rocky, and we can’t help going a little googly-eyed at the pictures. The “Lift Me Up” singer took […]

As part of a collaborative effort, scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have employed inventive chemistry to produce an injectable biomaterial with significantly improved adhesive strength, stretchability, and toughness. This chemically modified, gelatin-based hydrogel had attractive features, including rapid gelation at room temperature and tunable levels of adhesion. This custom-engineered biomaterial is ideal as a surgical wound […]

Most of Africa’s population—70%—is under 30 years old. In 2017 there were 628 million young people under 25 on the continent. This figure is predicted to reach 945 million by 2050. Young people bear the brunt of many challenges facing African countries. African adolescent girls and young women have the highest HIV infection rates. The continent has the highest rate […]

Desmoplastic melanoma, an often deeply invasive disease occurring in older adults, showed a uniquely favorable response to neoadjuvant pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in a small study, with most patients going on to avoid postoperative radiation therapy. In what is thought to be the first study of neoadjuvant use of an anti-PD1 immunotherapy in desmoplastic melanoma, the postexcision complete response rates were nearly […]

Image: Scott Olson/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared the overdose reversal drug Narcan for sale without a prescription — a move health experts say could help slow a crisis that's claiming more than 100,000 lives a year. Why it matters: Narcan acts five times quicker than the average arrival time for EMS technicians and can be […]

Lorraine: Daisy Maskell discusses living with insomnia Getting a decent amount of sleep every night can be a challenge for a variety of reasons. For some people stress or anxiety keeps them up at night, while others might be experiencing insomnia or an illness. Whatever the reason there could be a simple way to improve the amount and quality of […]

Brazil’s government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID-19 in recent days are either unvaccinated or suffer from other debilitating diseases. “The vaccine currently available in every health care unit in Brazil […]