🥱🧠 Researchers at #Durham University analyzed #ultrasound #videos to track how often fetuses yawn during different stages of #pregnancy.

The findings indicate that yawning frequency decreases as the #fetus grows, suggesting the behavior is a necessary part of maturation for the central nervous system. Unlike adults, fetuses don't yawn because they're tired or because they see others doing it.

👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yawning-contagious-in-womb-fetus-muscle

#biology #health #science #brain #research #medicine #education

A captivating corner of Hardwick Hall Country Park, taken on the May Bank Holiday weekend just over a week ago.
It's a view that looks almost timeless, except that it is part of an entirely man-made landscape dating from the 18th century.
It was a wealthy businessman from Tyneside named John Burdon, who developed the grounds, creating a 17-acre ornamental lake by adding an artificial river leading to it and encircling it with a walkway.

#england #durham #hardwickhall #countrypark #landscape #photography

A future restoration project maybe, or a repository of spare parts? Captured this quiet corner of the Tanfield Heritage Railway near Stanley in NE England.
The railway is part of what was once a former horse-drawn colliery wooden waggon way, later rope and horse, lastly rope and loco railway.
Today, visitors can ride along the route on preserved industrial steam locomotives.

#england #gateshead #durham #historic #railway #industrialheritage #photography

These are the 8 best Italian restaurants in the Triangle, from our Top 50 list

#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianrestaurants #chanterelles #DavidEllis #durham #Figulina #fooddelivery #Italia #Italian #Italiandining #Italianfooddelivery #ItalianRestaurants #italiano #italy #Restaurants #ScottCrawford #TheTriangle #Top50Restaurants #traditionalItalianrestaurant #woodburning
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2633691/these-are-the-8-best-italian-restaurants-in-the-triangle-from-our-top-50-list/