UCSD surgeons perform first-of-its-kind operation on San Diego Safari Park gorilla

The 12-year-old gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park seemed to struggle to open his mouth. Mizani avoided eating and often held his head up while squinting his eyes, indicating head pain.

Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...
Medical Xpress

Have you heard? Middle ear, mastoid harbor SARS-Cov-2 and may pose risk for medical staffs

A team of otolaryngologists and pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, can colonize the middle ear and ...
Medscape

Severe Acute Mastoiditis Admission Is Not Related to Delayed Antibiotic Treatment for Antecedent Acute Otitis Media

Overall, 512 children with acute mastoiditis were admitted during the study period; of whom, 278 (54%) were boys and 236 (45%) girls. The mean age at admission was 38 months (range, 6 months to 14 ...
Ars Technica

This 5,300-year-old skull shows evidence of the earliest known ear surgery

Archaeologists have excavated a 5,300-year-old skull from a Spanish tomb and determined that seven cut marks near the left ear canal are strong evidence of a primitive surgical procedure to treat a ...