It is the shape and dexterity of our hands that make it possible for us to write, paint, gesticulate and even take part in a fist fight. The common sense is that the nimble human hand evolved as our ancient ancestors started with using tools. However that might not be the [...]

A bill has been passed by the Republic of Ireland, making the country as the first in the world who would divest from any investments held in fossil fuel companies. The bill has won the cross-party support recently and would be  expected to be submitted to the upper house of parliament [...]

At present, an experimental technique has been successful in restoring some sense of hearing to deaf gerbils by application of  light. Although it is just the start of a proof-of-concept study, it does make it hopeful that one day doctors could use a similar method for treatment of hearing loss in humans. [...]

It is commonly accepted that we humans can identify five tastes namely, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. The first four have been known for a long long period of time and it was   Democritus, the Ancient Greek philosopher who described the last of them, bitter, nearly2.5 thousand years ago. However, Umami, was [...]

Raccoons may be linked with trawling through your trash, but in fact, they are pretty hygienic animals. When many raccoons are residing in the same location, they usually like to poop in the same place. So such situation turns out the issue that these raccoon toilets would present an ecology of [...]

Tinnitus could be very annoying condition, however, there is now hope that the millions of people currently suffering from the chronic ringing in their ears will be somehow cured . By application of precisely timed blasts of sound and electrical pulses, this experimental device could “reset” the responsible nerve activity [...]

Skin patches that are made of thousands of tiny needles could be   capable of offering antibiotics directly to the bloodstream, by doing so, it could help avoid a major path for resistance to appear and spread. Like most methods of controlling bacterial disease, this is unlikely to prove a permanent solution, although it [...]

Scientists may have found the one of the reasons that alcohol can cause cancer. It is discovered that the hard stuff can lead to  irreversible damage to the DNA in some of human body’s stem cells, possibly demonstrating kind of a link between alcohol and deadly mutations. During the last decades, more [...]

Quite soon, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be launched and start with its observations of the cosmos. However, the preparatory task for such mission has already begun and astronomers are excitedly expecting the possible discovery ahead. One particular group hopes it will finally find out the secrets behind [...]

In the past two years, scientists have made some successful achievements in fighting off the suspected cause of Alzheimer’s in mice without using drugs. The first recommended technology applied light pulses to changing brainwaves and at the moment scientists believe it can also be attained with sound waves. A research [...]