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New research in China suggests that the secret to making a delicious cuppa is held in a collection of microbes that are found on the roots of tea plants. The microbes work together to increase the production of the amino acid theanine, the main...
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A new study has found how age, gender and culture all influence how people interpret the characters used in electronic messages. 270 British and 253 Chinese adults, aged 18 to 84, were asked to identify 24 symbols from Apple, Windows, Android and...
A study has linked personality traits such as anxiety and irritability with early signs of heart ageing. Experts at Queen Mary University of London looked at heart scans of over 36,000 people and found that those with "neurotic"...
A study has found that females who cycle, swim and run regularly are less likely to die from heart attacks or strokes compared to men, even if they put in less effort. Researchers found that active women were 36 per cent less likely to suffer a...
Scientists have developed a model that can tell the difference between scans of male and female brains with over 90 per cent accuracy and found that the key variations are found in the default mode network, striatum and limbic network – areas...
WASHINGTON, DC: It has been a year since China relaxed the zero-COVID measures that had been stifling economic activity, but the country has yet to experience the rebound that policymakers and pundits anticipated. Instead, economic indicators from...
PANAMA CITY: As the United Nations enters the final stretch of negotiations for a new treaty to end plastic pollution, governments must work to ensure that the agreement not only reduces plastic production, but also strengthens local initiatives to...
NAIROBI – Corporations are increasingly moving into the public-health domain. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are being “pulled” by market opportunities for non-traditional actors to “disrupt” health care...
Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a senior counsellor at Centerview Partners and the author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens (Penguin Press, 2023) and the weekly newsletter Home...
MONROVIA/ADDIS ABABA: In 2017, African Union heads of state pledged to deploy two million community health workers (CHWs), recognising their role in advancing health for all. Seven years on, as African leaders prepare to convene in Addis...
Matthew Hyde, the 21-year-old university student accused of holding his ex-girlfriend captive in a dorm room and inflicting harm, is set to undergo a forensic psychiatric evaluation as part of discussions surrounding a potential plea deal. Both the...
As the two-year window for public entities and private businesses to retrofit their buildings for better accessibility for the disabled community closes today, the seat of Jamaica's legislature, Gordon House, falls short of compliance. Despite...
In the ongoing appeal of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel's 2014 murder conviction, UK Privy Council judges have requested additional submissions from attorneys regarding the argument surrounding the 'tainted jury'. The two-day hearing,...
In the trial of Simone Campbell-Collymore's murder, a car-rental company operator testified that defendant Michael Adams, an alleged accomplice, rented a vehicle two days before the victim's murder. Adams contacted the businessman on...
Lanzel Stewart, the People's National Party (PNP) councillor candidate for the Montego Bay South East division, is defending his integrity as old social media posts face heavy scrutiny. Videos and screenshots circulated online, showing Stewart...
Law enforcement sources reveal that the cache of 64 guns and nearly 1,000 bullets confiscated at Kingston Wharves on Friday were shipped from Miami, USA, destined for a violent gang in Jamaica's capital. Two individuals in custody were...
