Science
Animals
New Strange Species Discovered in Antarctic Sea
A recent scientific finding close to Antarctica has unveiled a new type of creature: the Antarctic strawberry feather star, scientifically known as Promachocrinus fragarius.
This unique creature has a body resembling that of a strawberry, with around twenty additional arms...
Health
Genetically Engineered Bacteria Detect Cancer Cells
A group of scientists from around the world has created a new technology involving genetically engineered bacteria that could aid in finding or even treating cancer in tricky spots such as the colon.
The team has shared their discovery in...
Science
Scientists May Have Discovered a Fifth Force of Nature
A surprising discovery made by scientists has rekindled the intriguing idea that there might be an additional force of nature beyond the ones we already know. At the moment, scientists believe four main forces govern how things work in...
Health
Microplastics Found in Human Blood for the First Time
Microplastics are in water, soil, air, and just about everywhere around us. Now experts have also detected microplastics in human bodies, the bloodstream of most humans, heart muscles, lungs, and even in placentas and feces of babies.
Eating and...
Environment
Study Shows Link Between Air Pollution and Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens
Worsening air pollution and an increase of antibiotic-resistant pathogens are but a few of the world's pressing health problems. These issues are causing millions of early deaths each year. Recent research by experts from Zhejiang University and the University...
Environment
Carbon Dioxide Rather Than Water Triggers Explosive Basaltic Volcanoes
Newly discovered tools at Cornell University have led scientists to a fresh understanding of what causes volcanoes to erupt. While geoscientists used to believe that water and shallow magma were the main triggers, this new research reveals that explosive...
Science
Paris Olympics to Include Electric Flying Taxis
As Paris prepares for the Summer Olympics in a year's time, aviation start-up Volocopter aims to make history with its VoloCity program. This commercial aircraft is revolutionising city travel through electrically-powered vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) technology.
The electric aircraft...
Science
Mars Keeps Spinning Faster, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
New recordings from Mars have delivered the most accurate measurement yet of how fast the red planet spins. The results have left scientists puzzled as mars keeps spinning faster.
Using data gathered by the now-retired InSight lander, researchers have discovered...
Ancient Greece
Five Things the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Medicine Today
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Medicine has changed beyond recognition in the last 2,000 years. So why should we still care what the ancient Greeks thought of Western medicine?
By Helen King
The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine...
Ancient Greece
Antidepressant Medicine Discovered in Ancient Greek City
It seems that even back in the ancient times, people were prone to depression as archaeological finds of antidepressants in the Ancient Greek city of Bathonea, located on the banks of Küçükçekmece Lake in Turkey, have revealed.
The city of...
Ancient Greece
DNA Analysis Redirects the Cradle of Indo-Europeans, Sheds Light on Proto-Greeks
A recent DNA analysis on 777 ancient genomes from across the so-called Southern Arc, namely Southern Europe and West Asia, redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans and sheds light on the Proto-Greek prehistoric past.
As is well known, the Greek language belongs...
Archaeology
3,200 Year-Old Mesopotamian Perfume Recreated
A 3,200-year-old Mesopotamian fragrance has recently been recreated in Diyarbakır, Turkey based on a formula left on an ancient clay tablet by a renowned female perfume maker of the time named Tapputi.
The perfume formula was discovered by archaeologists on...
Ancient Greece
Agnodice: The First Woman Doctor of Ancient Greece
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Agnodice was the first woman doctor of Athens in Ancient Greece whose story has been clung to by midwives for millennia. Her story is told by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus in his Fabulae.
By Abby Norman
Women in...
Greek News
The Greek Musician Who Played Bouzouki During Brain Surgery
A Greek man was playing bouzouki in the operating room while the doctors were performing brain surgery on him
Medicine
US Approves Postpartum Depression Pill
Health officials in the US have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted approval of the drug, Zurzuvae, for...