Documents obtained by NPR show that COVID tests used early in the the pandemic were known to be unreliable by the CDC. Faulty tests cost the United States weeks to respond to COVID.
Controversial lateral flow tests may have been sent out to millions of schoolchildren with the wrong instructions, it has emerged. Many of the Chinese-made kits contained guidance saying they were to be used by people suffering symptoms of coronavirus — going against official UK guidance. The devices were also sent out with a notice that … Read more
Advice to die for! Ancient Egyptian embalming instructions on a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus reveals the process of wrapping the dead person’s face with ointment soaked bandages to reduce swelling Researchers have translated a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus from Egypt The text describes the embalming process of wrapping a dead person’s face It provides ingredients to make an … Read more
Tom Teixeira knew his grandad had become famous when his phone started being permanently engaged. Tom Jnr would ring Captain Sir Tom Moore — whose death this week has prompted a national outpouring of grief and calls for a memorial in his honour — and find he couldn’t get through. ‘A couple of times I … Read more
Tom Teixeira knew his grandad had become famous when his phone started being permanently engaged. Tom Jnr would ring Captain Sir Tom Moore — whose death this week has prompted a national outpouring of grief and calls for a memorial in his honour — and find he couldn’t get through. ‘A couple of times I … Read more
Giving yourself verbal or mental instructions to clear your mind can help make room in your brain for more productive thoughts, a new study reveals. US researchers used brain imaging scans and machine learning to investigate what happens to the brain when we try to stop thinking about something. Three instructions – to ‘clear’ our … Read more
Magic! Amazon driver knocks three times then yells ‘abracadabra’ and runs away after teenager edits the ‘special instructions’ for his mother’s delivery An Amazon driver hilariously played along with a child’s ‘special instructions’ Jacob Staffieri, 13, asked the driver to knock three times and yell ‘abracadabra’ Lynn Staffieri, from Magnolia, Delaware, caught the amusing moment … Read more