Alan Cartwright
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French authorities confirm first human case of Shamonda virus
French health officials have confirmed the first documented human case of Shamonda virus, in a patient who died in early October. BBC News reported that officials described it as an ‘exceptional case in a severely immunocompromised patient’ and said there was currently no risk to the general public. The patient was being treated for a serious illness at a hospital…
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Health anxiety drove one woman to A&E four to five times a week
Hollie Sharman, 25, spent years convinced she was dying, visiting accident and emergency departments as often as four or five times a week before being diagnosed with health anxiety and health-related obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In one visit, she says she remained in A&E for 13 hours, only to be told each time that doctors could find nothing wrong. Her…
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Sends Boss Alona Shevtsova Hosts Women in Business Lunch at UK Payments Summit
Sends, a UK fintech that offers payment services for people and companies, featured in the Payments Leaders’ Summit UK, which took place in London across 20 and 21 October. While there, Sends boss Alona Shevtsova hosted the Women in Business Lunch, pulling together senior women from across finance, tech and business to talk leadership, career paths and what’s next for…
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Japan launches Phobos sample return mission to probe solar system origins
Japan has launched a spacecraft on the first-ever attempt to collect and return surface material from one of Mars’s moons, with scientists hoping the samples will help answer fundamental questions about how the solar system formed and whether life could have arisen on rocky planets. The Guardian reports that the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) spacecraft lifted off from Tanegashima Space…
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Delegates vote to scrap the leap second in favour of a leap hour
Delegates from 69 countries have voted to replace the leap second with the leap hour, ending a correction mechanism that has disrupted computer systems for more than half a century. The vote took place at a conference in Versailles held by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, as reported by the Guardian. Under the new arrangement, coordinated universal time…
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UCL study suggests auditory precision shapes language learning success
Skilled language learners appear to process unfamiliar foreign sounds in a way that resembles how the brain handles non-speech noise, according to a study by researchers at UCL and Tohoku University. The Guardian reports that the findings suggest auditory precision language learning ability may be more closely linked than conventional teaching methods assume. The study tested 67 Japanese learners of…
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Birdsong conservation: can AI and tutors help birds relearn lost calls?
Scientists are exploring whether AI-generated recordings and live tutors can help birds relearn songs that have been lost as populations decline, research that could matter for the survival of species whose members can no longer find or learn from enough experienced singers. The Guardian reports that the case drawing most attention involves the rufous-collared sparrow: researchers in Buenos Aires played…
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GLP-1 nail detachment study finds fourfold rise in users at EADV 2026
A controlled, multinational GLP-1 nail detachment study has found that people taking GLP-1 receptor agonist medications, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Victoza and Trulicity, were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment as those who had never used the drugs. The findings were among several dermatological signals that researchers said could not be entirely explained by weight…
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What Are the Most Important BMW Engine Parts?
Contributed content: this article was written by a third-party contributor and does not necessarily reflect the views of Primaryignition.com. Editorial and Advertising Policy Ask most BMW owners to name an engine part, and you’ll probably hear “turbocharger”, “timing chain” or perhaps “water pump”. In reality, an engine depends on a much longer list of components working together. BMW’s own parts…
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POLO pathway eye drainage: scientists map unknown waste route at back of the eye
A team from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto says it has identified a previously unknown POLO pathway eye drainage system, revealing a route through which fluid and waste leave the back of the eye and enter the body’s lymphatic network. The findings, published in Translational Vision Science & Technology, were demonstrated in mice and have…
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