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Health has become a top priority for many of us. We want to take responsibility and find ways to be more proactive when it comes to managing it. Increasingly we are looking for the most natural solutions to facilitate this; ...
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Easyjet just turned 20 and to celebrate the occasion, the company unveiled its new uniform update. Unlike other airlines that simply grow with the fashion trend, this company has made a huge leap beyond fashion and landed right inwearable technology. ...
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The Birth of an Idea In 2012, James Burgess and Mark Smith learned that a friend of theirs had contracted Clostridium difficile—commonly known as C. difficile—a virulent bacterial infection that, somewhat paradoxically, results from the prolonged use of antibiotics. Once ...
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Hand-written letters and printed photos seem quaint in today’s digital age. But there’s one thing that traditional media have over hard drives: longevity. To address this modern shortcoming, scientists are turning to DNA to save unprecedented amounts of digital data ...
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There’s filtration and then there’s filtration. Engineers in the US have been working on the latter, coming up with a new markedly more energy-efficient way of taking the salt out of seawater, which could deliver huge advantages in terms of ...
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Scientists have genetically engineered tiny algae to kill up to 90 percent of cancer cells in the lab, while leaving healthy ones unharmed, and the treatment has also been shown to effectively treat tumours in mice without doing damage to ...
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Conventional means of finding cancer can involve numerous types of scans and invasive options like surgical biopsies, but a new method of identifying the disease may involve nothing more onerous than a simple prick of a finger. Researchers at the ...
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Since the Industrial Revolution, our exposure to mercury has risen quite sharply. The upper ocean now has 3.4 times as much mercury as it did pre-Industrial Revolution and it easily makes its way into the food chain. Yellowfin tuna stocks ...
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Virgin Media has joined forces with Chiltern District Council in the U.K. to blanket Chesham’s high street with super-fast Wi-Fi. The unlimited service is available to all 21,000 residents and businesses in the town as well as visitors passing through ...