Health

Despite the fact that nights are shorter because there are more daylight hours and contrary to logic, summer is a perfect season to see astronomical phenomena. Few, yes, precisely for this reason: because there is more light and more daylight hours, they are more difficult to produce. But the few that there are can be seen clearly because summer, which officially began on June 21 at 4:58 p.m., is usually accompanied by clear skies. Thus, after the change of season and the summer solstice -the longest day of the year- the first full moon has arrived, which is also the…

Why mosquitoes prey on some people and pass on others remains a mystery, although many studies point to the smell that humans give off. Now, a new study suggests that the aroma of a soapcombined with the personal odor of some individuals, it can attract or repel mosquitoes. The detailed studies, carried out by scientists of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)are published this wednesday in the magazine 'iScience'. Research has found that an individual, extremely attractive to mosquitoes when unwashed, "can become even more attractive for mosquitoes with a soapand become repulsive to mosquitoes with another,"…

The Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG) has announced that lack of sleep in adolescents it's a public health problem and social", adding that it is showing "a debt" with the dream that "he is leaving a deep mark" also in his social relationships. Currently, this population group sleep less than the recommended 8-10 hourswhich has "serious consequences" for their health, directly impacting their daytime functionality both in the emotional planes (increased irritability and tolerance, suicidal ideation), such as social (difficulties in relating to one another, behavioral disorders, aggressiveness, maladjusted behaviors, substance use) as well as their cognitive…

Cosmologists have presented a theoretical advance that can explain both the nature of invisible dark matter and the large-scale structure of the universe known as cosmic red. The research, led by the University of Toronto and published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, suggests that the "clumping problem," which focuses on the distribution unexpectedly uniformity of matter on a large scale throughout the cosmos, it may be a sign that dark matter is composed of hypothetical ultralight particles called axions. The implications of proving the existence of hard-to-detect axions extend beyond the comprehension of dark matter and could…