Astronomers have been tracking a single star for over 20 years as it whizzes around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky way galaxy at speeds of
Archive for 2018
Pesticides and cancer among farmers: the rush towards irrefutability (second part)
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In an earlier article, we saw that the prospective epidemiological studies on the health of farmers (AHS cohort in the USA, Agrican cohort in France), supposedly the most reliable ones,
On July 26th, the Swedish military dropped laser-guided bombs on a forest fire that had been raging for nearly two weeks close to the town of Älvdalen, near its border
New hope for Alzheimer’s treatment: Biogen and Eisai report promising results from Phase II Clinical Study of BAN2401
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New data presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on July 25th came as an unexpected surprise. Patients receiving the drug performed 30 percent better on cognitive tests than those
Underground lake detected on Mars: could this hint at the prospect of life on the red planet?
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Astronomers have spotted a huge lake buried deep beneath a polar ice cap on Mars. The research published on July 25th in the journal Science points to a 20-km-wide reservoir
Eleven babies in the Netherlands have died during a clinical trial in which pregnant women were administered Sildenafil ― sold by Pfizer under the trade name Viagra ― to boost
A historic change, only noticed by a small minority of enthusiasts A recent scientific breakthrough made possible by AI has been well publicised by the media, but the main learning
The little spider that could: the tiny wolf spider may be helping to keep the Arctic region cooler
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A new study published on July 23rd in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1) highlights the potentially positive impact of the increasing wolf spider population (a member of
Donald Trump gets mad As soon as the NATO summit opened on Wednesday 11 July, Donald Trump castigated his European “friends” for the inadequacy of their defence budget and gave
A new study has amassed and analyzed four decades of satellite data – from 1979 to 2016 – to confirm that humans are in fact altering the seasonal cycles and