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Low-Carb Diets Might Reduce Life Expectancy

According to a recent study published in The Lancet Public Health, low-carb diets might shorten the life, while a diet based on moderate carbohydrates consumption is much healthier. The research, carried out over a period of more than 25 years,…

August 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

New Discovery: The Exoplanet which Atmosphere’s so Hot it has Titanium and Iron in it

Until recently, Mercury was considered the hottest planet in our Solar System. The temperatures on Mercury are over 800 degrees Fahrenheit on its Sun-facing side. If you thought those are high temperatures, take a look at what we know about…

August 19, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Passive Smoking – Smokers’ Children Are More Exposed To Adulthood Diseases

According to a recent US-based study carried out on 70,900 non-smoking men and women by the American Cancer Society, non-smoking adults are more exposed to severe lung diseases if their parents were smokers. The scientists stressed that childhood passive smoking…

August 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Curiosity Rover Found A Strange Object On The Surface Of Mars That Puzzled The Scientists

At the beginning of the week, NASA’s Curiosity Rover bumped into a strange object on the surface of Mars. Although the weird thing found by the rover on the Red Planet puzzled the scientist, the researchers eventually figured out what…

August 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Light-Activated Oxygen To Kill Infections, Diseases, And Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

MSRA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), for example, is a life-threatening bacteria that can spread fast in hospitals and has the property to resist treatments. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MSRA could be devastating, but scientists came up with a new way to tackle…

August 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

A New Study Shows that Eating More Meat while Lowering your Carb Intake might Shorten your Life Span

This Friday, a team of scientists presented their findings concerning dieting and life expectancy. Apparently, middle-aged people who get a moderate intake of carbs as their calories will add a couple of years to their life expectancy, rather than those…

August 18, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

The Number of People Killed by Overdose Increases day by day

There is new proof that the United States is vulnerable to powerful drugs concocted in laboratories. The synthetic opioid fentanyl kills many people day by day. In 2017 more than 72,000 people died because of drug overdoses and recently more…

August 18, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Bacteria-like Fossils have been Discovered in Australia

Some 3.4 billion-year-old fossils have been chemically analysed, and they might be considered the oldest evidence of life in the world. Information on the fossils These microfossils discovered in 2011 in the Strelley Pools formation in the Western Australia desert.…

August 17, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

NASA Discovers: Our Solar System is Fenced by a Glowing Wall

In a mission to space, NASA’s rocket came across a UV light which is scattered around our solar system’s farthest reaches. According to NASA, the fence which surrounds our solar system is made out of hydrogen, and it is located…

August 17, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

A 3D printing contest is organized by NASA to see how we’ll design our homes on Mars

Among its many priorities, NASA introduced a new one, building homes on Mars. By launching the ‘3D-Printed Habitat Challenge’, NASA looked to find 5 winners who could design 3D printed houses. They did exactly that, and now those teams have…

August 17, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0