Top 10 toxic products you can live without
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now monitors a total of 298 environmental chemicals that have been found in humans, including many used in consumer products. These chemicals can...
Saving lives with even better sunscreen
In many countries sunbathing just isn’t fun anymore. Especially in Australia and New Zealand, health organizations practice aggressive advertising to make people realize how dangerous sunlight...
Are Africa’s railroads on track for sustainable development?
Zambia, Malawi, or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are rich in mineral deposits such as copper, cobalt, zinc, gold, silver and uranium ores. Some of these deposits have yet to be exploited...
Hadron Collider discovers new particle
It was first predicted to exist in the 1960s but, much like the Higgs boson particle before it, the pentaquark eluded science for decades until its detection at the LHC. The discovery, which amounts...
Ocean Discovery: Newly Found Volcanoes Off Sydney, Australia Coast
Australia is known for having all kinds of curious creatures and life that might remain still undiscovered. As it turns out, this holds true too for the nation-continent’s oceans: 155 miles...
Inhalable Ebola vaccine
Prepared by – Suzanne Abou Said Daou | Only two months after being officially declared Ebola-free, the Ebola virus worry emerged when more cases of the deadly disease struck Liberia, and...
Scientists side with cats by switching off a life-saving instinct in mice
This is what should happen. When mice smell cat urine, it sets off an alarm in their bodies and produces a stress hormone. Their pulse rate accelerates and their instinct tells them to run from the...
Ultrasound may heal chronic wounds, suggests study
A blast of ultrasound can help stubborn chronic wounds heal more quickly, a study suggests. Tests on animals, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, showed healing times could be cut...
