Medicine

History

• La influenza más mortal: la historia completa del descubrimiento y la reconstrucción del virus de la pandemia de 1918

Studies

• New technique links lithium distribution in the brain to depression

• Green Tea Consumption Is Inversely Associated with the Incidence of Influenza Infection among Schoolchildren in a Tea Plantation Area of Japan

• Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”

• Minicerebros creados en laboratorio desarrollan ojos que pueden ver

Practical

• Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

Interesting

• When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away

• Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

• If a heart is a muscle, why doesn’t it ever get tired of beating but things like my arms and legs do?

• ELI5: What are the biological mechanisms that causes an introvert to be physically and emotionally drained from extended social interactions? I literally just ended a long telephone conversation and I'm exhausted. Why is that?

• ELI5: Chest pain during a panic attack can be mistaken for a heart attack. What happens during heightened anxiety that causes chest pain in the absence of a cardiac event?: explainlikeimfive