Littering and pollution is destroying our planet. Scientists have been working tirelessly for years to find cheap, effective and versatile means to plastic degradation. In this article, we will focus on the positive news in the field of innovation and…
Have you ever heard the term “arrhythmia”? The term circles the media, though few can define it properly. Arrhythmia describes a broad group of conditions, altering our regular heart rhythm.Arrhythmia can cause our hearts to beat too fast, too slow…
We’ve all heard that knuckle cracking has a negative effect on our joints and can lead to arthritis. It is a common belief that people hold about the popping sound that some of us make habitually. However, is it actually…
After 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, no one wants to hear about rising cases of any virus. However, the bad news is that monkeypox cases are spreading; not only in countries where the virus was previously endemic. There are…
Every year a large group of people wait for the announcement of 5 Nobel Prize laureates in the field of physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature & peace, and economic sciences. This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology…
We live in a world where it is not possible to survive one day without the use of plastic. It is such a common material that it is probably safe to assume that at any given minute, everyone is wearing…
The prevalence of many civilization diseases is increasing. One of the most well-known of these is diabetes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that the prevalence of both type I and type II of diabetes increased from 108 million to…
The brain’s ability to control and regulate the gut using nerves and various signals is well established. However, scientists have recently discovered that this is not the only way in which those two systems in our bodies communicate. It turns…
Cloning is definitely one of the more popular themes in science fiction movies but with the recent progress in research, it has already turned into reality. Cloning is not a completely human-made process; there are many examples of it in…
Mutations in DNA are responsible for many genetic diseases and developing ways in which we could ‘reverse’ such changes has been on scientists’ radar for years. Thankfully, there was a breakthrough in this research area with the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9…
