Month: May 2023

In the past century, more than 50 ships and 20 planes disappeared in the so-called Bermuda Triangle. An Australian researcher claims to have found the solution. But – spoiler alert – it has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. The Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki and the U.S. weather agency NOAA do not believe in the supernatural reputation of the area between Florida, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles. Both argue probabilities. NOAA stated back in 2010 that there is “no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently in the Bermuda Triangle…

The world is slowly recovering from a pandemic, Covid-19, that has held it in its grip for two years. Everyone has seen their lives changed by this disease, even if they were not directly infected. More than three years after the pandemic outbreak, WHO has decided to launch its fourth strategic plan for pandemic management, aimed primarily at preventing further contagions in high-risk areas of the world. As the international emergency declared in early 2020 ends, the world’s top health authority is formulating five essential points to avoid returning to…

Although many risk factors such as gender, age, frailty, pregnancy, or obesity are now known, it is still not completely clear why some people develop a severe and some mild course of Covid-19. Last year, a microscopic study from Germany supported the theory of a so-called cytokine storm: the immune system overshoots the mark and sometimes causes more damage with this exaggerated reaction than the virus itself. A recent U.S. study analyzed the health data of 585 patients in the intensive care unit of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago: all…