In a new research scientists assume the seemingly lowly sponge may have paved the way for all the lives on our planet, including human beings. The study is published in the Nature Geoscience journal and it writes these sponges appear to have added oxygen into the deep ocean and that has further created such environment…
It seems as if a pesky gas has started to work its way back into our lives, the substance was actually banned back in 1987. The ozone layer itself has been in a recovery state for quite some time (well, since 1987 really) when gases that were harmful to the earth’s atmosphere was used in…
It is high time to spread awareness about deaths occurring from heroin overdoses. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is doing the same. He is calling it as urgent and growing public health crisis. He is drawing attention to all the negative and wrong being done by heroin drug. In a video message he revealed…
After few incidents of recurrent sinkholes in Florida the ground opening and swallowing you up without any warning has become one of the worst nightmares these days as human population grows and we invent new ways to exploit underground resources. These sinkholes today are becoming more common in the US. National Aeronautics and Space Administration,…
In a recent finding scientists say the fallout from damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan will hit the West Coast next month. The radiation is of low levels though. It is reported the disaster drifts is flowing across the Pacific Ocean and to reach the ocean waters of United States’ West Coast in April. Experts…
In a new study researchers say self exams of one’s skin is important as apart from melanoma other skin cancers too at a young age may lead to other types of the disease. The finding is published on the website of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers, & Prevention journal and it says the nonmelanoma skin cancer is…
A new study has revealed that onset of Alzheimer’s disease can be found by a blood test, showing the testing levels of fat in the blood can be helpful to envisage 90% accuracy in the coming next three years. The study is a new dawn to this disease where people suffering from this disease are…
The recent measles outbreak in the New York indicates to be more aware of the symptoms of it. At least sixteen people have been infected with the disease in Manhattan and Bronx, and Health Department says seven of them are adults and nine children. It adds further that four of the infected are also hospitalized.…
Scientists have warned four new man-made gases are damaging the ozone layer of our planet even though production of all similar gases are banned under a 1987 treaty. Experts have traced the new gases may have been coming from industrial sources, and probably from those which are making refrigerants or pesticides. The ice of Greenland…
Two promising treatments are coming across to cure AIDS. Scientists in the US are calling for attention and their study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The University of Pennsylvania doctors removed blood cells from several patients suffering of HIV. With the help of a technique they also removed a protein from…