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6 Evidence-Based Ways to Reduce Feeling Anxious Before Going to The Gym

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Whether you’re new to the gym or returning after a long break, it can be an intimidating place. There’s even a term to describe the feeling of nervousness or anxiety that many people feel when they think about going: “gymtimidation”.   One survey found as many as half of Americans experienced “gymtimidation”, while another UK … Read more

Cutting-edge cancer and COVID-19 approaches could reduce organ scarring | Science

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Millions of people die every year from fibrosis, a build-up of scar tissue in the liver, heart, and other organs. Scars are key to healing, but sometimes “the scar becomes a problem instead of the solution,” says Scott Friedman, a liver disease specialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Now, by blending … Read more

We Could Harness White Noise to Save The Lives of Millions of Birds. Here’s How

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Billions of birds die each year from collisions with tall glass buildings, communication towers and power lines – a gobsmacking toll that’s expected to increase as cities grow outwards and upwards.   A recent study suggests there could be a way to fix our deadly mistakes – by installing ‘acoustic lighthouses’ that blast white noise … Read more

Cannabis Treatment Can Reduce Kids’ Epileptic Seizures by 86%, Early Results Show

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The anti-seizure qualities of the cannabis plant can likely not be boiled down to a single compound, like cannabidiol (CBD), according to emerging research. Studies in Australia have recently revealed numerous other compounds in the cannabis plant that also show anticonvulsant effects. Some of them could even be more powerful than CBD.   A small … Read more

‘Bubble curtain’ could reduce hurricane intensity in Gulf of Mexico

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A technology that keeps Norway’s fjords ice-free in winter could help prevent devastating hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in the future, a Norwegian company now backed by an independent study believes. It’s a hot, humid summer in Louisiana sometime around the mid-2020s. Weather forecasters are keeping an eye on a tropical depression forming in … Read more

Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic could help us reduce cyberbullying

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By Alexandra Martiniuk and Joseph Freeman Simone Rotella CYBERBULLYING was already a problem before the covid-19 pandemic hit. In Australia, for example, one in five young people reported in 2017 that they had been socially excluded, threatened or abused online, and the same proportion said they had participated in cyberbullying themselves. Then lockdowns and work-from-home … Read more