After analyzing images captured below the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf, in the southeast of the Weddell Sea, in the Antarctic Ocean, scientists at the University of Cambridge found a series of unknown spongy animals clinging to a rock located about 3,000 feet deep. The Antarctic expedition began in 2016, when a team of geologists traveled to… Read more »
Recently, a study published in the bioRxiv preprint database and retrieved by Live Science, suggests that, just as people when stressed let out a cry of anguish or a shriek, plants that are in the same situation do the same. Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, placed microphones near stressed drinking and tobacco… Read more »
A team of marine biologists from Florida State University traveled to the Bahamas to do something that had never been achieved before: entering deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean to tag a shark that has remained virtually unchanged for 200 million years. It is the gray canebota. This shark (Hexanchus griseus), unlike its more evolved relatives, has six gills instead of five. It is a… Read more »
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reacted on Monday against “rumors” that call into question the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, and insisted that it is effective and safe. IARC, dependent on the World Health Organization (WHO), stressed that the vaccine is also essential to end the possible… Read more »
Swiss scientists managed to transform cancer cells into fat, and thus stop the metastasis , thanks to the action of two drugs. In the study, published in the journal Cancer Cell , experts claim to have shown that the effects of the antitumor drug Trametinib and the antidiabetic drug Rosiglitazone in mice. According to researchers from the Department of Biomedicine of the University… Read more »
Historically kings, queens and emperors have tried to find the fountain of youth; they failed. Ponce de Leon instead founded Florida, emperor Qin of…
