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This week, the World Health Organization announced that aspartame—the chemical that gives products like Diet Coke their distinctly sweet flavor—has been added to its list of potential carcinogens.

By LUCY PHIRI 

REFUGEES and their children who have lived in Zambia for more than 10 years should be registered as citizens of Zambia, the Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU) deputy executive director, Maurice Makalu has said.

Omicron-derived virus variants are currently responsible for most SARS-CoV-2 infections worldwide. Compared to earlier virus variants, omicron rarely causes severe disease. According to current knowledge, a major reason for this is that omicron infects lung cells less efficiently and therefore causes pneumonia less frequently.

Humans need less sleep than our closest evolutionary relatives. However, we often sleep less than we need.

Frailty leaves older adults especially vulnerable—and increases their stays in hospital—which underlines the importance of a self-managed exercise and nutrition program that Flinders University is developing to help reduce frailty.

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

GOVERNMENT will fly Copper Queens goalkeeper Hazel Nali to India for treatment after she picked an injury which ended her World Cup journey prematurely, Sports Youth and Arts Minister Elvis Nkandu has confirmed. 

Specific nerves may be stimulated artificially, for example to treat pain. The finer the nerves, the more difficult it is to attach the required electrodes. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and NTT Research have now developed flexible electrodes produced with 4D printing technology. On contact with moisture, they automatically fold and wrap themselves around thin nerves. The study is published in the journal Advanced Materials.

Riffing off 2019’s “hot girl summer” and 2022’s “Adam Sandler summer”, online magazine The Cut has declared 2023 the year of the “barefoot-boy summer”.

Both ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions for ADHD medication have increased significantly over the past two decades, except in children under five, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

A pair of new studies led by researchers at Columbia University explains why babies get so many common respiratory infections and identifies a specialized cluster of immune cells found only in babies that help them better cope with new pathogens.