MOSCOW — Following a neuroimaging experiment, the Higher School of Economics researchers found that the stronger the functional brain connects, the less inclined someone is to punish others for unfair behavior. Their paper “Wired to punish? Electroencephalographic study of the resting-state neuronal oscillations underlying third-party punishment” was published in the journal “Neuroscience.” Productive and predictive interaction with other […]

NEW YORK — Light therapy helps heal burn injuries faster by triggering growth protein, a new study by the University at Buffalo has revealed. The study was published in an online peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports. Burn injuries are estimated to affect over 6 million people every year worldwide. These injuries cause significant morbidity (infections and scarring) and mortality associated with burn injuries, […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian parliamentary standing committee for transport, tourism, and culture (including the civil aviation ministry) is expected to take up the increasing fare cost between India and the United Kingdom.  Rapid Covid-19 testing cost at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in capital Delhi is also on the agenda of the discussion.  The committee will summon a […]

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The wait for the vaccine for the elderly in Nepal is over. They can now get the second dose of the Covid vaccine after waiting for more than four months. About 8.4 percent of Nepal’s population have been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine. In contrast, 15.145 percent have received a […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian government on Aug. 9 announced that foreign nationals residing in India could receive their Covid-19 vaccine in the country. The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare allowed foreign nationals residing in India to register on the CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network), the country’s vaccine registration portal, to receive their jab. Foreign nationals can […]

WASHINGTON — A new study has found that the perception of influential leaders may depend on the type of emotions they choose to express, and people use implicit theories of leadership emotions when evaluating a leader’s effectiveness. The findings of the study were published in the “Journal of Organizational Behavior.” Women leaders must often battle […]

Several COVID-19 vaccines under development in Israel hold out promise for their ability to protect against variants of the virus that are challenging existing vaccines. Research groups across the world were racing in May 2020 to formulate vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Realizing it was not going to win that race, Israel purchased millions of […]

Con el aumento de los casos de COVID-19 causados por la variante Delta, las preocupaciones sobre cuánto tiempo de efectividad tiene la vacuna Pfizer-BioNTech, y qué tan eficiente es contra la variante Delta, el gobierno israelí decidió el 29 de julio aplicar una vacuna de refuerzo disponible para todos los israelíes mayores de 60 años. […]