by sagesgroup | Feb 26, 2023 | Health, homepage, knowable-magazine, Medicine, Syndicated
Blessing Azeke wrapped her cardigan around her body as another asthma attack set in. Provoked by cold air from an overhead fan in her law school classroom in Enugu, Nigeria, her lungs refused to let her breathe. The attack made Azeke so weak that she could hardly move...by sagesgroup | Feb 20, 2023 | Health, knowable-magazine, Mental Health, Psychology, Sex, Syndicated
The unhappiest time in a sex therapist’s office is around Valentine’s Day, says Dr. Peggy Kleinplatz, a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa. “It’s the day where I see the most miserable couples, the most distressed couples,” she says. High...by sagesgroup | Feb 6, 2023 | Astronomy, knowable-magazine, Physics, Science, Space Science, Syndicated
“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the universe is so big,” he says, “it’s often beyond the reach of our...by sagesgroup | Jan 30, 2023 | Biology, DNA, Genetics, History, knowable-magazine, Science, Syndicated, technology
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to paleogenomics, the sequencing of DNA of ancient specimens. Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the coveted prize “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human...by sagesgroup | Jan 22, 2023 | Biology, Covid-19, Health, knowable-magazine, Medicine, Syndicated
Three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 is still going strong, causing wave after wave as case numbers soar, subside, then ascend again. But this past autumn saw something new — or rather, something old: the return of the flu. Plus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) —...by sagesgroup | Jan 16, 2023 | Computers, knowable-magazine, opinion, Psychology, Syndicated, technology, Video Games
If you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that’s 5 percent of your life. Will this time investment do anything good for your brain? This is a question that my colleagues and I at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been studying for the...