For anyone who flies into Shanghai Pudong International Airport, it鈥檚 a rite-of-passage to take the Maglev -- short for magnetic levitation -- train into the city. The railway is as much a tourist...
When removing a brain tumour, the distinction between healthy tissue and cancer isn鈥檛 visible to the naked eye. Even advanced imaging can miss what hides between those boundaries. For years, this...
Without light there is no life. Literally. It was Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz who through a series of experiments in 1779 showed that light is required for photosynthesis, the process that makes...
In 2005, Colin Campbell, now Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, authored 鈥淭he China Study.鈥� The book became a best seller with its claim that the聽road to good health meanders through fields...
In a lab in Rochester, New York, a group of scientists were trying to grow cells taken from a naked mole rat. Instead, they ended up with a petri dish full of goo. The cells had secreted a thick,...
鈥淏oil the nipples!鈥� was the advice given in 1984 by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. to parents who were bottle feeding their infants or calming them with pacifiers. The presence of...
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