Sara Miller, Staff Writer at Live Science, and Claire Maldarelli, assistant editor at Popular Science, discuss a new study that suggests that men might not be exaggerating symptoms of the flu after all...they might actually suffer more than women!
Miller and Maldarelli weigh-in on the findings, which seem to come down to estrogen. Women, because they have more of the hormone, seem to have stronger immune defenses to respiratory illness.
Both writers also talk the discrepancies in the findings. Social constructs and regular doctor visits could proect against getting sick were not taken into account in the study.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
The recent heat wave in the South has led to an uptick in ER hospitalizations, according to the CDC.
Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States.
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Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth.
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Four scientists will be living on a mock Mars base for a year that has been built inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
A cleaning company is facing a lawsuit after one of its janitors working at a university is accused of turning off a power supply to a freezer and destroying decades of scientific research.
A new study shows intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories.
