Health
Meningitis can kill within hours. The glass test is the last sign, not the first
Most people know to press a glass against a rash. Far fewer know that the rash is a late sign and may never appear at all. Here is what…
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Health
Chasing the perfect night’s sleep is now a recognised way of ruining it
Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines. Doctors say patients are arriving with tracker data convinced they have a disorder they do…
Technology
The plastic-free tea bag also sheds particles. The Barcelona study’s real finding is what happened when they met human cells
Polypropylene bags released about 1.2 billion particles per millilitre, nylon-6 8.18 million, and cellulose 135 million. Intestinal cells…
Technology
Why knuckles pop: the MRI that overturned a forty-year explanation, the one-man fifty-year experiment, and the finding that is actually true
A 2015 scan showed the bubble forms as the sound happens, not when it collapses. The arthritis fear does not survive the evidence. One…
Technology
An AI reads lung CT scans better than the standard test: 0.87 against 0.67 in a Royal Marsden study — what the number means, and what it does not
Researchers at the Royal Marsden, the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London trained a model on CT scans of lung nodules…