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The 5 most groundbreaking scientific achievements of the decade
Posted in Featured, Science on 1st Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
The world has seen some pretty major scientific achievements in the last 10 years, as discoveries and developments decades in the making were finally realized.
New studies shine light on long-term effects of intermittent fasting
Posted in Medicine on 29th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
The research suggests fasting for just one day a month over many years can lengthen lifespan and enhance cardiovascular health, but as always, the new studies are riddled with caveats.
Writing-based early detection Parkinson's test set for 2022 release
Posted in Medicine on 29th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
A team of Australian researchers has developed a novel early detection test for Parkinson’s disease based on a short series of drawing and writing tasks.
Ice Cold Saline Has Been Used to Rapidly Cool and Suspend Bodies During Surgery
Posted in Medicine on 28th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have placed humans in suspended animation and this could enable them to have hours instead of minutes to operate on critical patients.
Dust towers may have helped dry out ancient Mars
Posted in Science on 28th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
One of the most dramatic of Martian phenomena is the tendency to roughly once a decade be suddenly subject to gigantic dust storms that completely engulf the planet, blotting out the Sun.