Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we’re discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health
Source: NewScientist | Health
NewScientist
- Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula
- How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors
- Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
- Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna
- Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves
NewScientist | Earth
- A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean
- Huge crater in Australia may be the oldest impact structure on Earth
- Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake
- What lies beneath? The new era of Earth imaging
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years
NewScientist | Health
- Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna
- Game that reduces dementia risk may clear amyloid from men’s brains
- Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy
- Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hours after death
- Injection halves risk of chromosome error common in older human eggs
NewScientist | Humans
- Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula
- How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors
- This book is essential reading before watching the new Odyssey film
- Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neanderthals and humans
- Human brains may have got bigger for no particular reason
