Well-Preserved Brain Cells Turned to Glass Two millennia after the infamous volcanic eruption, a new study published in the journal PLOS One adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting shards of strange black matter recovered from the unlucky man’s remains are indeed remnants of his brain. https://t.co/3c9DRfcm1R — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) October 16, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD the pyroclastic surge boiled the blood and exploded the skulls of some of the residents of Herculaneum. A new study believes the matter taken from one of the unlucky resident’s skull resemble neurons which are the […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080674105_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_90bfd1da37b83d688594631a01bc873a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010171080797357-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-says-recovered-from-covid-19/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that she had recovered from COVID-19. McEnany wrote on her Twitter page on late Friday that she is “COVID clear”. The press secretary said that she had tested positive for the coronavirus disease on October 5. Three days earlier, US President Donald Trump said that he had been infected with COVID-19. After undergoing treatment, the US leader tested negative for the coronavirus disease on October 10. Source link
Since Covid-19 cases in China are slowing down, 637 million Chinese went on a trip around the country for the eight-day holidays (1 October – the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival). According to the Global Times, domestic tourism revenue was 466.56 billion yuan ($68.6 billion). A professor specialising in tourism studies examines the outcome. Sputnik talked to Jiang Yiyi, professor at the School of Leisure Sports and Tourism of Beijing Sports University, to discuss the results of Golden Week. The Measures Have Worked According to Jiang Yiyi, the increase in tourism was possible thanks to the timely and effective introduced anti-coronavirus […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/04/1080664206_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_6a552440a5edf75d6f35757a4bee0538.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010041080664235-some-kind-of-fantasy-animal-sea-monster-figurehead-recovered-from-500-year-old-shipwreck/ The researchers apparently weren’t immediately able to establish exactly what animal was the figurehead found at the sunken ship represented. A peculiar discovery was made by archaeologists studying the shipwreck of the Gribshunden, a Danish flagship that sank off the coast of Sweden in 1495, the Daily Express reports. According to the newspaper, the find in question is a wooden figurehead depicting a “doglike figure or monster”, which appears to be “one of the oldest known preserved wooden carvings of its kind in the world, preserved by its submersion for centuries”. “It’s […]
Inca Llama Carving Recovered From Depths of Lake Titicaca Claire Bugos/Smithsonianmag.com In the 15th or 16th century, members of the Inca civilization fashioned a stone box filled with sacred offerings and dropped it deep into Lake Titicaca. It remained there, undisturbed, for some 500 years. The box was remarkably well preserved upon its rediscovery several years ago, acting as a time capsule for the team that found it on the Bolivian side of the South American lake. Now, a new study published in the journal Antiquity argues that through such offerings, the Inca sought to symbolically and politically reclaim sacred spaces. Researchers […]
Daily Beast: U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly been investigating an April 2019 attack on an American convoy that killed three U.S. Marines to determine whether it was connected to bounties secretly offered to Taliban militants by the Russian government. The Nasty Truth Behind the Russian Ordered ‘Hit’ on American Troops and the Trump Coverup and still, @realDonaldTrump in his full blown ignorance and support of Putin, continues to deny! He loves the military, just not ours!#TraitorTrump #TrumpIsAnIdiot #OneTermTrump https://t.co/vSpX5fBxOq — JB Maberry (@jbm85363) June 29, 2020 Over the weekend, President Donald Trump denied being briefed on the bounties, dismissing reports on intelligence […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Yoga guru claimed that the medicine titled ‘Coronil and Swasari’ is not an immunity booster but rather a cure for coronavirus. Patanjali Yogpith, a company of Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that allegedly cures COVID-19 patients. “We’ve prepared the first Ayurvedic-clinically controlled, research, evidence and trial based medicine for COVID-19. We conducted a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial, and found 69% patients recovered in 3 days & 100% patients recovered in 7 days,” said Ramdev during the launch. © Sputnik / Patanjali Ayurved has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that […]