Making a cleaner, greener, environmentally safe sunscreen
Ingredients in many sunscreens are bleaching coral and harming marine life. www.shutterstock.com Yousong Ding, University of Florida As the temperatures rise and Americans swarm to ...
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Zombie Plants: How Phytoplasma turns plants into the ‘budding dead’
“…Zombie Plants” I was listening to Prof. Saskia Hogenhout speak when a phrase she used took me by surprise. Did I hear that correctly? As ...
Let the clones run wild: vegetative propagation in our daily life
We all remember how at the end of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, the sinister motive behind producing the clones is revealed. How would ...
Superfood? Diet that mimics fasting regenerates insulin-producing cells and reverses diabetes symptoms
1 in 11 adults on the planet has diabetes and every six seconds, someone dies from diabetes and related complications. Once upon a time, it ...
Benign bacteria reduce Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes
You are probably familiar with Zika fever, an obscure disease that you likely hadn’t heard of until last year when an explosion in the number ...
Unsound judgments on sound science: myopic misunderstandings of basic research
Every scientist has experienced it. When they tell someone that they have or are completing a PhD in biomedical sciences, often the first words out ...
Gut feeling of the brain?
How often have we heard the phrase “my gut feeling is this person is mentally sick”? And how often have you seriously considered it to ...
Much sweetness can cause sickness: The science behind plant sugars influencing transmission of malaria by mosquitoes
SUMMARY : As part of their natural diet to meet energy requirements, female Anopheles mosquitoes also consume sugars from plant nectar and fruit sap. Such ...
Staying fit prevents cancer: Who saw that coming?
Science has verified something you might have intuitively known already. A large proportion of cancer cases and deaths among U.S. individuals who are white might ...
Climate Change can damage your kidneys
Climate change may not just kill polar bears and melt ice caps, it may damage your kidneys as well, according to a study published in ...
