Posted in: Featured, Science by Sergiu Vidican | April 27th 2011 | no comments
The Fukushima Daiichi situation has improved a lot since the tsunami which took place on March 11. However, traces of radiation can still be detected in the area, and the people who go in its proximity will suffer from radiation.
According to an article in livescience.com, radioactive iodine-131 has been released into the water supply from the damaged nuclear power plant. However, the emitted radiation [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 12th 2011 | 3 comments
Throughout time, scientists have tried to find a way to top the terrible condition called Alzheimer’s from developing so rapidly and it seems that the best way to do [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 12th 2011 | no comments
Aside of the fact that pets usually help their owners with their health problems, increasing their chances of getting better to emotional aid, they also seem to do a great job when it [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 12th 2011 | no comments
Yoga dates as back as ancient India and it is the kind of practice which helps the body become one with the spirit.
Throughout time, people have engaged in yoga [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 12th 2011 | no comments
It is a widely known fact that oceans are the planet’s largest carbon dioxide absorbers, as they intake about one-third of all human carbon emissions.
Previous studies made [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | no comments
Although up until now sexual orientation was a thing to which people did not relate genetics, it seems that genetics has a lot to do with a woman’s choice when it comes to her sexual [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | 2 comments
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which is characterized by the disintegration of the thought process [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | no comments
Polar bears are known to have some things in common with brown bears, but these things were so insignificant that scientists did not truly believe that [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | no comments
During World War II, bombing raids were all across the English sky and behind them, huge contrails could be seen delaying there.
According to modern science and the [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | no comments
Up until now most people thought that if they drank large amounts of alcohol, some of their brain cells died and that was the main reason, they thought, they could not remember [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 11th 2011 | no comments
You know that every summer when you get out of the house without putting some protective lotion on your skin, you get these terrible sunburns.
Throughout time, people have tried to [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 9th 2011 | one comment
Living a poor life as a child may lead to becoming a risk taker.
According to a new research led by Vladas Griskevicius, Ph.D., an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota, it seems that people [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 6th 2011 | 3 comments
Throughout time many studies have been made on mice to see how they deal with things when it came to social interaction.
The most recent study, however, [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 6th 2011 | no comments
Adolescence is a very hard time for teenagers, given that they go through all sorts of changes, from physical to emotional points of view.
Still, even though everything may be [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 5th 2011 | no comments
We all have a set-point. The sent point is that baseline emotional state to which we all come back to. This set-point sets our level of unease or contempt. [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 5th 2011 | no comments
Marijuana has been used for a very long time, but in Shakespearian times it was only used to make rope and textile. Still, a South African anthropologist seems to be thinking that Shakespeare used to [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 4th 2011 | no comments
It is a widely known thing that no one can go out without their cell phone in their pocket or their purse, but no one really thought about making a study about this.
Not until now. According to a group of researchers [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 4th 2011 | one comment
Parents always complain how their children do not turn to them when they have a problem or how the relationship between them is almost inexistent.
Well, what [...]
By Roxana Ostafe | July 4th 2011 | no comments
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Moreover, the side effects of the drugs are not the only concern. According to doctors, people can recognize krokodil addicts only by their smile, as their [...]
