Growing up in a greener urban environment increases children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult behavior, a study has found. The analysis of more than 600 children aged 10-15 years showed a 3% increase in the vegetables of their neighborhood increased their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. …
Read More »A close-up view of comet NEOWISE, taken by Hubble on August 8th.Image: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (Caltech), and A. Pagan (STScI Comets do not always survive their stay in the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests that the comet NEOWISE – the brightest in decades – has …
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(Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Monday was cautious about supporting the use of recovered plasma from COVID-19 patients to treat people who are ill, saying that evidence that it works remains “low quality”, even if the United States emergency authorization for such issued therapies. PHILO PHOTO: Convalescent plasma …
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Israeli teenagers who volunteer at an archeological dig have traced hundreds of gold coins that were stuck in a clay film for more than a millennium. The 425-pound 24-carat gold coins date from the Abbasid caliphate period in the 9th century and would have been a significant amount at the …
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A gold coin hoard, which to this day has been said by the Israel Antiquities Authority against the Abbasid dynasty, is being seen after its discovery at an archeological site in Central Israel on August 18, 2020. Image taken August 18, 2020. Heidi Levine / Pool via REUTERS CENTRAL ISRAEL …
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