Chocolate sweets are rich in sugar and hard to resist. Why or why should all the tasty things be bad for you? ( a rhetorical question)
A metabolic currency or a dangerous drug?
Did you know that most of us are addicted to a drug that causes millions of unhappy and ruined lives?… Read the rest
Allegory of Immortality, by Giulio Romano, ca.1540.
The Immortality of the human soul is endlessly debatable until at least we find out what a soul is. The Immortality of the human body is a subject we can now talk about, thanks to the progress in biology.… Read the rest
Ridley Scott returns with a long-anticipated supernova explosion box office hit Prometheus, which would undoubtedly please sci-fi fans all around the world. Even the film theme the director is back with is no small.
About two years ago, CERN’s the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research programme had finally started. Since then, the Earth has not been devoured by an LHC-generated black hole as many feared or hoped. Also, the programme has not yielded any ground-breaking discoveries yet, apart from almost certainly disproving the Higgs boson occurrence in nature (I’m allowed a joke).… Read the rest
The transgenic venomous wasps from the Hunger Games film/book are not just a fantasy anymore. It’s our present. The modern bio techniques allow for genetic modification (GM) of virtually any type of organism or a virus.
It all started half a century ago when the genetic code was first cracked, which enabled scientists to intrude into nature’s most intimate, molecular level.… Read the rest
Radish – By Jonny Hunter (originally posted to Flickr as Radish in baskets) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By LASZLO ILYES from Cleveland, Ohio, USA (Lettuce Sea Slug) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons