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Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years

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They show that the pharaoh was around 35 years old, 169cm tall, circumcized, and in good physical health when he died, apparently from natural causes. His was a kind of golden age: Egypt was prosperous and safe, while the pharaoh ordered a religious building spree and led successful military expeditions to Libya and northern Sudan.

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Engineers: Heal Thyselves (and Health Care)

The Health Care Blog

I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age. As an example, in a Blockbuster-could-have-bought-Netflix parallel, The New York Times reports that Intel could have bought NVIDIA in 2005, but the reported $20b price was considered too expensive.

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Machine learning and knowledge engineering uncovers significant role of elevated blood glucose in severe Covid-19

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Image: Blue Brain Project/EPFL 2005-2021. Yet the role that glucose plays in the progression of the disease and the importance of managing glucose levels in the aging population, people with diabetes and the general public, was unclear. By Colm Gorey, Frontiers’ Science Communications Manager. All rights reserved.

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Weekly Health Digest: Stem Cell Transplants, Sleep and Dementia, Sugar From Birth, Cold Meds Regulation

Exploring Health

Dr. Victoire Leroy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, one of the researchers, believed that addressing proactive signs of restlessness may prevent negative cognitive health outcomes. Leroy and colleagues study suggests that proactive measures now could prevent impairment later as we age.

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Children grow faster during school year than during summer holidays

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statistically reanalyzed the results from their 2013 study , where they followed 3588 children who entered kindergarten in September 2005, at any of 41 schools in the Fort Bend Independent School District around the city of Sugar Land in Texas. Moreno et al. Here, 22.6% as ‘late-onset overweight or obese’, 8.2%

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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

In our study , recently published in the IJE , we used accelerometer measurements of sedentary time collected for the Norway-wide physical activity monitoring system to estimate that a 9-year-old boy or 15-year-old girl or boy spent, on average, 20 to 30 minutes more each day being sedentary in 2018 than in 2005.

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Frontiers for Young Minds articles for kids showcase impact of award-winning math on everyday life 

Frontiers

From patterns in data and health scans, to creating animated movies and even within astronomy, the researchers show how their work has enabled major breakthroughs for humanity, and that mathematics is more applied than abstract formulas and calculations.