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WHO warns coronavirus outbreak 'getting bigger'
Feb 28, 2020 16:07The rapid rise in coronavirus infections raised fears of a pandemic on Friday, with five countries reporting their first cases and the World Health Organization (WHO) warning it could spread worldwide.
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Countries stepping up efforts to fight new coronavirus
Feb 25, 2020 12:15Countries throughout the globe are escalating efforts to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus that has so far infected over 77,650 people, mainly in China.
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World leaders urged to 'step back from precipice' of ecological ruin
Feb 23, 2020 14:15A statement, which was released through non-profit thinktank Aspen Institute reads “The loss and degradation of nature jeopardizes human health, livelihoods, safety and prosperity. It disproportionately harms our poorest communities while undermining our ability to meet a broad range of targets set by the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. We must rise above politics and ideology to unite the global community around the urgent cause of protecting our planet and way of life.”
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Exploring why mindfulness meditation has positive mental health outcomes
Feb 21, 2020 10:31Researchers suggest that consistently practicing mindfulness meditation encourages self-compassion, helping people to find greater meaning in their life, but also reducing the tendency to avoid or escape from unpleasant thoughts or emotions that cause pain, suffering or discomfort. Combined, these three factors could lead to improvements in wellbeing and mental health.
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China reports drop in new virus infections despite fatality increase
Feb 20, 2020 11:33Figures show a big drop in new coronavirus cases in mainland China, even as deaths from the infectious epidemic increase to 2,118 people.
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US urge EU to use 5G by Ericsson, Nokia amid fight with China’s Huawei
Feb 20, 2020 11:20EU countries have no reason to use 5G mobile technology from Huawei because Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia and South Korea's Samsung are on par with the Chinese group in the field, a senior US diplomat said
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UK finally lets its national sleeping on streets in Europe come home – but charges him £100
Feb 14, 2020 15:40A British man left sleeping on foreign streets after being locked out of the UK by the Home Office has finally been allowed to return – but been charged £100 to replace the passport they confiscated.
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How the far-right became Europe’s new normal
Feb 07, 2020 17:50It was a scandal when a far-right party entered government two decades ago. Now it’s just routine. What happened? Twenty years ago, on Feb. 4, 2000, a shock wave reverberated from the heart of Europe: The far-right Freedom Party of Austria, founded in 1956 by National Socialist activists, entered government.
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Could ‘young’ blood stop us getting old?
Feb 06, 2020 13:25A clutch of scientific startups are trying to discover the secrets of parabiosis and use them to tackle age-related disease. By identifying factors in plasma that change with age, they aim to create therapies that either supplement what’s beneficial in young blood or to inhibit what’s detrimental in old. One is even beginning to report early clinical trial results.
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How smart were our ancestors? Answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow
Feb 05, 2020 14:33Researchers have often assumed increases in intelligence in human ancestors (hominins) occurred as brains grew larger. This is not an unreasonable assumption; for living primates, the number of nerve cells in the brain is almost proportional to the brain’s volume. Other studies of mammals in general indicate the brain’s metabolic rate — how much energy it needs to run — is nearly proportional to its size.