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My father was a carpenter, meaning I have spent a great deal of my life surrounded by wood, saws, planes and chisels. Simply by living among sawdust and woodchips, you learn to distinguish the different smells of wood.

There has been an explosion in nutritional supplements that promise a superior product because they contain nanoparticles called liposomes. But there’s a lot of misleading information and outright myths about these being shared online, so it’s important to understand how liposomes work before you spend money on an expensive new food supplement.

Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for monitoring daily activity levels.

By NATION REPORTER 

THE police have arrested and charged five people among them four students on one count of breaking into a building and committing a felony therein contrary to section 303 (A)(B) of the Penal Code Act Chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia during a riot at the University of Zambia (UNZA) Great East Road campus.

Police spokesperson, Rae Hamoonga said following the riots at UNZA that occurred between September 18, 2023 around 19:00 hours and September 19, 2023 around 00:10 hours the police arrested the five. 

Mr. Hamoonga said the four have been identified as Chawezi Muwowo aged 21 of Kabangwe, a first-year student studying economics, Kennedy Banda aged 24 of Kapiri Mposhi, a fourth-year student studying project management, Kizito Banda aged 20 of Chilanga, a second-year student studying civil engineering and Masho Kapembwa Mulenga aged 21, of Salama Park, a third-year student studying law.

He said the other person who was arrested was Gift Kambela aged 23 of Mutendere B, an ice cream seller at the UNZA spar.

Mr. Hamoonga said Police have since recovered one by 25kg bag of mealie meal, two deep freezers, photograph albums all valued at K12, 010, 00 and among the exhibits was a closed-circuit television footage.

The suspects have been released on police bond awaiting court appearance.

Hospital nurseries routinely place soft bands around the tiny wrists of newborns that hold important identifying information such as name, sex, mother, and birth date. Researchers at Rockefeller University are taking the same approach with newborn brain cells—but these neonates will keep their ID tags for life, so that scientists can track how they grow and mature, as a means for better understanding the brain’s aging process.

Patients who have undergone pelvic radiotherapy may live with low-grade chronic inflammation of the lower intestine 20 years after the treatment. This has been shown in a study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg published in the journal eBioMedicine.

A Griffith University study found the body neutrality movement has a positive influence on young women’s body image may help to conquer unrealistic body standards.

Playing Tetris for fifteen minutes can prevent psychological trauma in mothers after a difficult birth. These are the conclusions of a large-scale study conducted at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG) and published in Molecular Psychiatry. The study’s findings pave the way for a routine intervention to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms linked to childbirth.

Over 40 percent of Canadians have used at least one risk-associated alternative health-care treatment in the past 12 months, says a new UBC study published in PLOS One.

Neuroscientists at the Flatiron Institute in New York City and their colleagues have made a big breakthrough using one of the world’s smallest brains.