Canadian Cancer Society urges colorectal cancer screening age to be 45 – National
Michael Groves thought he had appendicitis. In January 2021, he went to the emergency department with abdominal pains, but after testing, medical staff ruled it...
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Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
A typical male burial from the Stone Age cemetery of Csőszhalom in Hungary. He is buried on his right side, with a polished stone tool...
Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another...
Do ‘forever chemicals’ age men faster? Experts urge caution on new study – National
A new study spurring international headlines appears to suggest that pre- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” may be speeding up aging...
Colorectal cancer screening should start at age 45, organization says – National
Colorectal Cancer Canada is recommending provinces and territories should “commit to lowering the routine colorectal cancer screening age to 45 for average-risk Canadians.” Thursday’s press release argues...
Many men lose their Y chromosomes as they age. It may shorten their lives.
Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination,...
Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine’s gift idea from nature
This week’s science news was filled with astonishing stories about ecological transformations. Topping the list was the finding that China has planted so many trees...
Subterranean tunnel, possibly used for medieval cult rituals, discovered in Stone Age tomb in Germany
While excavating a Stone Age burial site in Germany, archaeologists stumbled upon a mysterious “earth tunnel” that someone made in the Middle Ages, thousands of...
World’s oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon cave
The oldest known sewn clothing in the world may be pieces of animal hide that Indigenous people stitched together with plant and animal cords and...
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a ‘giant’ who’d had brain surgery
Archaeologists have unearthed a Viking Age pit filled with the dismembered remains of 10 people in the outskirts of Cambridge, England. The unusual mass grave,...