Air pollution blights the lives of untold millions in urban areas worldwide. Long-term exposure to even relatively low levels of polluted air can cause or worsen a wide variety of health problems. So combating air pollution is a must. Turns out, though, that doing so isn’t as simple and straightforward […]

Feb 2, 2020 In the News Under-nutrition and obesity: two sides of the same coin? (Unimondo) Nutrition Unimondo reported on a study published in the Lancet. According to the study, “A new approach must be urgently defined to simultaneously reverse under-nutrition and obesity, because these problems are increasingly interconnected due […]

As China races to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, a feat of design and engineering has unfolded at the outbreak’s epicenter: A hospital built in just 10 days.

Scrap bats. It may not have been the flying mammals, after all, that incubated the deadly new coronavirus that has already infected tens of thousands of people and caused hundreds of deaths in China and even outside the country. A team of Chinese scientists say it seems possible that pangolins […]