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New Study Challenges Beliefs on Human Brain Preservation

New research, led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a forensic scientist from the University of Oxford, challenges what we thought we knew about how human brains decompose after death. Instead of thinking brains decay quickly after we die, this study, in the...

Scientists Squeeze Diamonds to Create an Even Harder Material

Experts believe that diamonds, renowned for their hardness, could potentially be compressed to create an even harder substance. These expensive stones, formed from carbon crystals, occur naturally within the Earth's depths. Research even suggests that geological events might propel diamond...

Hospital Transplants Pig Kidney Into Human for First Time

In a four-hour surgery undertaken at Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday, March 16th, doctors have managed to perform the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced on Thursday. In the hospital,...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows First Brain-Chip Patient Playing Online Chess

On Wednesday, Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink live streamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess and toggling a music stream on and off. Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old man who is paralyzed from the shoulders down due...

Humans Have Been Speaking Earlier Than Thought, New Research Claims

New research has identified when humans probably began talking early on in history. A study led by British archaeologist Steven Mithen indicates early humans might have begun using basic language about 1.6 million years ago, probably in eastern or...

Sundial Calendar, the Byzantine “Antikythera Mechanism”

Referred to as the Byzantine "Antikythera Mechanism", the portable sundial-calendar on display at the London Science Museum is fifteen centuries old and is proof that the Byzantines excelled in arithmetic and astrology. Byzantine education was based on the study of...

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,...

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...

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,...

The Cosmos of Ancient Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...