Gold comes at a small price compared to platinum and palladium. And the main target of the palladium and platinum quest is not their use in jewelry. These precious and extremely rare metals are crucial in the automobile, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, being unmatched as catalysts in various chemical reaction...
Hair loss is more than a physical issue. For many people, it is a great fatality that even changes their character. They turn more introverted, avoid relations with the others, get low self esteem, and even depression. Men will think that the others see them as being less attractive and sometimes even less virile (pa...
Some play God and play it tough. The famous US scientist Craig Venter is going to create the first ever artificial life form. He has managed to build a synthetic chromosome employing chemicals obtained in the lab and the new achievement could lead to new energy sources to fight off the negative effects of global warm...
In almost half the cases, man is the cause of a couple's infertility. In the last 4 decades, male fertility has been plummeting in developed countries, with sperm count decreasing by 1.5 % annually in the US and 3% in Europe and Australia. This, combined with the tendency of later pregnancies (that is after a wo...
You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it's the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prep...
This is a headache-giving job: finding a cure against HIV. Now, a new research made at the University of Florida has revealed the way HIV changes over the course of a person's lifetime into a more lethal form that leads to the onset of full-blown AIDS and new therapeutic agents could target the virus earlier dur...
Since you were a child you've been told that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat; well, now, scientists in fact recommend chocolate as being even more efficient than many drugs in preventing and treating various conditions. On one condition, though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even 60-75%...
We have become more aware of the fact that obesity causes heart issues, hypertension, stroke and diabetes. Now, obesity has been linked to cancer. Obese people are six times more vulnerable to gullet (esophageal) cancer than people of average weight, as found by a recent British research. Levels of esophageal cancer ...
Why are you pulling your hair out while others don't even care about what happens? New molecular brain patterns could explain why some individuals are easy prey for stress. "While the research was done with mice, the findings could eventually lead to better treatments for chronic stress, depression and the post-...
Being male or female is decided from the womb. And in most cases, the key is held by sex determination genes on the sex chromosomes. The genes connected to sexual development have evolved remarkably little along the evolutionary of our race. Opposite sex determining genes, sex chromosomes are among the most fast chan...
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