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Ever had “butterflies in your stomach” before a big event? Or felt that sinking feeling in your gut when something goes wrong? These aren’t just poetic metaphors—your brain and gut are in constant communication via a sophisticated system called the gut-brain axis.
While Lactobacillus species often dominate a healthy vaginal microbiome, women’s exact microbial makeup seems to depend on 6factors such as age, motherhood, hormonal levels, and menstrual stage. In addition, menstrual products, contraceptives, sexual activity, partnership choices, and diet also seem to modulate the vaginal microbiome in fascinating ways.
Soups are some of the best meals to have in your freezer, especially as the weather cools down. With these warm and comforting soup recipes, you can have an easy lunch or dinner while also prioritizing your gut health. With ingredients like garlic, chickpeas and spinach, these soups are as healthy as they are delicious. Try our Garlicky Cabbage Soup or our Creamy White Bean Soup for a warm meal that you’ll always have on hand. Love any of these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save, search and organize your EatingWell recipes all in one place. It’s free! Marry Me Chickpea Soup with…
As ever more technologies — including advanced batteries, computers and artificial-intelligence tools — enter our lives, increasing numbers of highly skilled workers are needed to build them. Universities can provide training. But they are struggling to keep up with surging demand.Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive?Take semiconductors. From integrated circuits to microsensors, chips shape our lives. For decades, through cooperation and coordinated planning, the chip industry has triumphed over technical challenges to make transistors ever smaller. Today, it faces a fresh scaling challenge that it seems unable to overcome: an unprecedented global shortage in…
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Hugh was born in Rugby on 10 August 1941. He attended Lawrence Sheriff School before going to Bristol University, where he obtained his medical degree followed by a diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology. He worked in general practice for a short period before changing to pathology, working first at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Frenchay Hospital before going to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Here, he mainly worked in pathology of the heart and the …
Kapoose Creek Bio’s unique fungal collection is analysed on site at the company’s research station on Vancouver Island in Canada.Credit: Kapoose Creek BioAlongside the commercial aspects of setting up a company, such as filing patents, attracting investors and recruiting staff, science entrepreneurs face a more creative challenge: what to call their business. In January, Richard Kuo described how his spin-off from the University of Edinburgh, UK, became Wobble Genomics. The name is a reference to biologist Francis Crick’s hypothesis that, in some RNA molecules, the third base in a nucleotide triplet pairs more flexibly than the other two — in…
A coccyx fracture, also called a broken tailbone, occurs when the bottom tip of the spinal column breaks, according to Physiopedia. Coccyx fractures are often hard to find on imaging and may not be immediately diagnosed.A fractured coccyx causes pain and swelling in the area and is typically managed via self-care, rather than surgical intervention. Fractures can take 8 to 12 weeks to heal. If you suspect you’ve broken your coccyx, follow your doctor’s advice. After a period of rest, they may recommend light exercise to stretch ligaments and strengthen muscles that support the spine, which can help with the healing…
A professor of physics in Iraq was permanently dismissed last week after a government investigation found he orchestrated a massive fraudulent publishing scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars paid into his bank account by unwitting researchers, documents obtained by Retraction Watch show.The scam included a deal between a prominent association of Iraqi academics and a predatory publisher, as well as the creation of a fake journal website and bogus acceptance letters purporting to be from reputed journals.According to a ministerial order dated September 9 and obtained by Retraction Watch, the physicist, Oday A. Al-Owaedi, who also goes by several…
Let’s start by saying this: Red wine is not a health food. It’s a type of alcohol. Where it gets convoluted is that the beverage does contain beneficial plant compounds called polyphenols, including resveratrol. Once an unrecognizable name, resveratrol has become ubiquitous with longevity.