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Health
New Therapy Destroys Deadly Brain Tumor in Days
A 72-year-old man, diagnosed with a very aggressive type of cancer known as glioblastoma, had brain scans that showed his tumor shrank significantly just days after treatment.
Two other individuals with a similar cancer diagnosis didn't have such positive results,...
Greek News
Greece Opens Its First Fertility Clinic for Pre-Pubescent Boys
The first fertility bank for pre-pubescent boys who suffer from malignancies and immunodeficiencies has opened in Greece, with the aim of helping those at risk of losing their fertility.
Greece is Shaping the Future of Fertility Treatment
The opening of the...
Greek News
Humans to Achieve Immortality by 2030, Google Engineer Claims
Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankind´s fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt.
Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer,...
Ancient Greece
The Cosmos of Ancient Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics and especially geometry.
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
The second century BC was a time of the golden age of Greek science, and civilization centered in the kingdoms of the empire of Alexander...
Ancient Greece
New Research Disproves Pythagoras’ Music Theory
New research has shown that the tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate people's appreciation of harmony, challenging centuries of Western music theory and disproving ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras' musical theories in at least two...
Science
Vanishing Y Chromosome in Males Casts Uncertainty About Future of Men
The Y chromosome, which contains the male-determining gene in humans and other mammals, is degenerating in the human species and may cease to exist after a few million years. This would lead to extinction unless humans evolve a new...
Ancient Greece
Nine Mathematical Equations that Changed the World
Mathematical equations have been the tool of man explaining the world around him and the key to advance knowledge about the Universe
Ancient Greece
Scientists Decode Golden Ratio of Ancient Greek Riace Bronze Statues
One of the famous ancient Greek Riace Bronzes was found to have had its teeth designed following the mathematical value of the golden ratio.
Ancient Greece
Mathematics in Ancient Greece and Its Influence on Modern Science
Advances in mathematics that can be attributed to ancient Greeks are many and have profoundly shaped the scientific world as we know it today.
Let's take a look at ancient Greece, a place where the idea of zero was yet...
Animals
Whale Song Mystery Solved by Scientists
Researchers have figured out how giant whales make their beautiful songs in the ocean. Humpback whales and other large baleen whales have a special voice box for singing underwater.
This discovery, shared in the journal Nature, explains why our noisy...
Health
1st Frostbite Drug Approved by FDA After Clinical Trial
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light for the first-ever drug to treat severe frostbite.
The new drug, called iloprost, works by making blood vessels wider and stopping blood from clotting in frostbitten people. After...
Archaeology
First Case of Down Syndrome Found in Ancient Greece
The first confirmed case of Down syndrome in Ancient Greece was found on the island of Aegina, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications.
DNA analysis on the skeleton of a girl aged 12-16 months, who lived in...
Science
Neuralink’s First Patient Controls Mouse by Thinking, Musk Says
Elon Musk said on Monday that the first human patient implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and can control a computer mouse using only thoughts.
"Progress is good, and the patient seems to have...
Science
Massive Chunks of Another Planet Are Inside Earth, Scientists Say
For years, scientists believed that the Moon came into existence when a big object called Theia crashed into Earth a very long time ago, around 4.5 billion years ago.
This huge collision broke off a lot of debris from Earth,...
Animals
The Most Expensive Liquid in the World at $39 Million Per Gallon
The most expensive liquid in the world is venom from a scorpion which has potential medical applications, but its extraction and processing are highly specialized and dangerous.
The deathstalker is one of the most dangerous scorpions on the planet, and...