When a Bird is the Walruses’ Toy
The title might seem striking at first, but not when you know about a number of Scientists’ new observation; young walruses engaging in complex play rarely seen in nonprimates. According to a...
A Text for your Freezing Days… This Soup Existed 10,000 Years Ago
This is the season for boiling drinking hot soups and drink. What else would you do on a cold winter evening?… Maybe you can also read this text, made especially for your freezing days. 10,000...
Call of the wild for UAE researchers
In a vast expanse of untouched Abu Dhabi desert, scientists from the Environment Agency (EAD) are busy protecting a clowder of sand cats from extinction. In recent years, sand cat populations have...
DEA about Marijuana: Not enough evidence of “currently accepted medical use”
There has always been a controversy around marijuana; the most commonly used illegal drug in the world and the United States. To cut it short, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has kept...
Volunteering to help others can improve your mental and physical health
Two new studies published this week have provided yet more evidence to suggest that staying active as we age, through working or volunteering, can promote both physical and mental health and...
More than 6 million Americans drink unsafe water, according to a new study
Unsafe water is not limited to poor countries only, or to “third world” countries, as they are called nowadays, but one of the richest and most powerful countries, is suffering from...
How much exercise will lower chronic disease risk?
The daily dose of activity needed to lower the risk of diabetes, stroke and heart disease by at least 20 percent is several times the minimum recommended by the World Health Organization,...
Will genetically modified mosquitoes harm the environment?
In the recent days, one of the discussions was about gmo mosquitoes. Are they harmful of to environment, or not? Knowing that a genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic...
