Day: June 23, 2020

EACH year about 700,000 people around the world die due to drug-resistant infections. These infections kill because the infections cannot be cured. The actual figure could be much higher because there is no global system to monitor deaths due to drug-resistant infections. And there has been trouble tracking those deaths in places where they are monitored, like in the US, where tens of thousands...

IN a paper published in the journal Sleep, British researcher James Horne reports that even one sleepless night can affect our most creative kind of thinking, known as divergent thinking, which involves spontaneity, flexibility and originality. This type of thinking is used in creative pursuits such as writing or painting, and is required to respond in innovative ways in an emergency. Horne says...