A safari-park carer has been hailed a "hero" after rescuing a careless teen from the jaws of a cheetah. The 17-year-old from Germany visited the Beekse Bergen Safari Park near Tilburg in the Netherlands with his school. The teen and two of his friends put their lives at risk by…
Scientists have urged patients and healthcare staff to be more proactive about addressing mental health concerns as a new study identifies a higher psychiatric disorder risk of people suffering from COVID-19. Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) in the United States used data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)…
People with an irregular heartbeat that puts them at risk of strokes, blood clots and other heart complications are being mostly correctly diagnosed by smartwatches, according to new research. The problem of an irregular heartbeat, known as Atrial fibrillation (AFib), was confirmed in nearly 94 per cent of people who…
Overweight middle-aged people have a higher risk of suffering from dementia at an advanced age, a German study shows. PD Dr Veronica Witte, 41, is a biologist at Leipzig University. She heads the university's special Mechanisms of Adiposity research group, in which medical experts from different departments are working on…
A piece of DNA that many humans have inherited from the Neanderthals makes it more likely to get a serious bout of COVID-19 but 27 percent less likely to get HIV, scientists say. The study was conducted by Hugo Zeberg, age not reported, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden,…
This is the moment Colombian Navy personnel and conservationists rescue an endangered pink river dolphin after it became stranded for over a month, and then release it in safer waters. The pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the Amazon river dolphin, was rescued from shallow waters in the…
These small fish rub against great white sharks and a new study argues that it could be so they can exfoliate their skin and remove parasites. A team of researchers led by the University of Miami (UM) Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric…
Wild pandas living luxurious lifestyles in perfectly-created man-made panda-friendly landscapes are becoming too lazy for sex, putting the future of the species at risk. Research by Michigan State University (MSU) published yesterday (20th September) found that a panda's habitat is ideal when it is happy enough to thrive, but at…
These images show how Argentine locals defy officials that warned of the risk of disease by climbing on top of a dead humpback whale, even posing inside its mouth for snaps after it washed up on a beach. The incident was filmed in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the…
Tourists are continuing to continue to risk their lives in order to get spectacular footage after several were spotted grilling food on the hardened lava, and then cooling down afterwards with soft drinks. The shocking scenes were reported by locals and other tourists despite the huge backlash over a recent…