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A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis describes how obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups, and intensified cellular mechanisms promoting the diseases. Continue reading “Obesity Is Shifting Cancer to Young Adults”
When we think about climate change, the main sources of carbon emissions that come to mind for most of us are heavy industries like petroleum, mining and transportation.
Rarely do we point the finger at computer technologies. Continue reading “Study shows smartphones harm the environment”
About 70,000 years ago, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and asteroids. Astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge have verified that the movement of some of these objects is still marked by that stellar encounter. Continue reading “A star disturbed the comets of the solar system 70,000 years ago”
Σημαντική διάκριση για ένα νέο Έλληνα επιστήμονα (ο οποίος έλκει την καταγωγή του από το Ηράκλειο της Κρήτης) που βρίσκεται αυτή την περίοδο στην Αμερική. Continue reading “Ο Έλληνας ιατρός, Γιώργος Παπαδάκης, εξώφυλλο στο περιοδικό “Radiographics””
What was great Albert Einstein’s opinion of the Greeks? Continue reading “Albert Einstein and the Greeks”
In a potato field near the Netherlands’ border with Belgium, Dutch farmer Jacob van den Borne is seated in the cabin of an immense harvester before an instrument panel worthy of the starship Enterprise. Continue reading “Netherlands and the future of farming”
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