Havana, Jan 14. - Blua de Sanitas psychologist Jorge Buenvida Camarero explains that the current and accelerated pace of life, work overload, social disconnection and excessive use of technology affect the emotional health of many people and contribute to prevalence of depression.
US, Jan 11.- NASA released on Friday a new global temperature record that occurred during 2024, which although it cannot be directly linked to the deadly California fires, the huge snowfalls or the hurricanes of last year in the US, does make these types of events more “prone” and “intense”, as Carlos del Castillo, a scientist at that agency, explained to EFE.
United Kingdom, Jan 10. - Two researchers from Queen's University Belfast in Ireland (United Kingdom) conducted a study to determine whether dog owners' stress levels affect their pets. Although experts had previously shown that negative behavior towards dogs during a veterinary visit increased their anxiety, this is the first time that the stress of their owners in an unknown environment has been specifically analyzed.
UK, Jan 9 - Hilary Jones, a UK doctor and TV presenter, posted an AI-generated image on Tuesday showing what a person who consumed excessive amounts of ultra-processed foods (UPF) for 30 years of their life might look like.
China, Jan 8. - A Chinese online platform has organized around 30 food delivery routes using drones in the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, south of China, which has already resulted in more than 300,000 orders processed. The service is available in office buildings, residential neighborhoods, tourist routes and educational institutions.
A team of paleontologists discovered multiple huge dinosaur footprints dating back to the Middle Jurassic - about 166 million years ago - in the Dewars Farm quarry, located in Oxfordshire (United Kingdom), according to a statement published this Thursday by the University of Birmingham, who directed the excavation work.
China, Jan 3. - Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot replace human decision-making on the battlefield, because AI does not assume responsibility for its actions, warns the Chinese Army.
There are around 250 sunken ships with treasures in the waters of the Azores archipelago, Madeira and the Portuguese continental coast, underwater archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro, who mapped 8,620 shipwrecks in these areas, told the local portal Observador.
National Geographic, Dec 30 - If someone asks us to classify a tiger or a lion, the vast majority of us will say that they are felines. However, from a strictly scientific point of view, they are not. Instead of felines, they should be classified as felids, which, in fact, is the family of carnivorous mammals to which they belong, which is distinguished mainly by the shape of the skull, its muscular body with flexible limbs and by the fact that they have retractable claws that they hide inside a kind of sheath, which allows them, among other aspects, to wear out less than other species.
China, Dec 28 - Chinese scientists have made an important discovery in the field of agriculture by developing a new method that significantly increases crop productivity when exposed to high temperatures.
A recent study revealed in 2024 that the ancient Neolithic monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom was built to unite ancient farming communities.
Washington, Dec 24 - This year is ending with a shower of stars and the next one will be marked by an interesting astronomical phenomenon: the alignment of six planets.