According to the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation, a male is diagnosed with testicular cancer every hour. It can affect men at any age, but unlike other cancers, it’s much more prevalent in young people. Testicular Cancer Bears the Greatest Risk for Young Men The odds of getting testicular cancer are about 1 in 270. However,…
Scientists Trained Ants to Detect Cancers
Researchers have successfully trained ants to detect cancer cells in as little as half an hour, thereby providing an inexpensive, noninvasive way to identify the disease. A Feb. 21 study published in the iScience journal details how Formica fusca, a species of black-colored ants, can be used to detect cancer. “Cancer cells are characterized by an…
LIVE NOW: 2023 EarthX Conference: Day 3
The 2023 EarthX conference will take place in Dallas, Texas, from April 20 to April 23. EarthX is the world’s largest green gathering, with more than 100,000 people visiting the free Expo, which spreads across much of the 277 acres of the massive Fair Park complex. Included within the Expo grounds are 18 stages, each…
2023 EarthX Conference: Day 3
The 2023 EarthX conference will take place in Dallas, Texas, from April 20 to April 23. EarthX is the world’s largest green gathering, with more than 100,000 people visiting the free Expo, which spreads across much of the 277 acres of the massive Fair Park complex. Included within the Expo grounds are 18 stages, each…
IN-DEPTH: Florida Lawmakers Pursue Law Change to Provide Immunity to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Other Space Firms
Bystanders cheered as Elon Musk’s supersized, stainless steel SpaceX Starship roared into the sky from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, on April 20. Almost two minutes later, as the unmanned craft—designed to transport people and cargo to the moon and Mars—disappeared in a fireball, they cheered just as enthusiastically. Musk had told reporters four days earlier,…
Thin Outside, Fat Inside: Invisible Killer That May Cause Cancer
Visceral fat, also known as abdominal fat, is the fat that surrounds internal organs in the abdomen. While it is normal and necessary for the body to store some fat for energy and insulation, excess visceral fat can harm health. One of the reasons for this is that visceral fat can cause inflammation in the…
LIVE NOW: 2023 EarthX Conference: Day 2
The 2023 EarthX conference will take place in Dallas, Texas, from April 20 to April 23. EarthX is the world’s largest green gathering, with more than 100,000 people visiting the free Expo, which spreads across much of the 277 acres of the massive Fair Park complex. Included within the Expo grounds are 18 stages, each…
RNA-Based Vaccine Technology: The Trojan Horse Did Not Contain mRNA
A few years ago, the term “mRNA” was primarily confined to scientific circles and research papers. Then, the use of messenger RNA seemed promising: It would teach cells to create a protein that would initiate an immune response against a specific pathogen. Today, many more of us have heard of mRNA, as both the Pfizer-BioNTech…
Curious Diner Makes Dinosaur Discovery in Chinese Restaurant
A perceptive diner has spotted dinosaur footprints in a restaurant in southwestern China, with an international research team confirming that they belonged to the sauropod—a long-necked and small-headed herbivore. Hongtao Ou, a self-reported palaeontology buff, was having a meal at a restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan, when he found evenly divided craters on the floor and…
Old NASA Satellite Plunges to Earth Over Sahara Desert
An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency reported Thursday. NASA officials said they have received no reports of damage or injury so far from the reentry, which occurred in the wee hours of the morning in Sudan. Most of…
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