People with a history of gum disease are up to 52 per cent more at risk of throat and stomach tumours, US experts say. The danger is even greater for those who have previously lost two or more teeth, Harvard University’s public health school found. Previous findings on the relationship of...
Researchers may be closer to slowing down the aging process, according to a new study. Health experts said the findings will provide mankind with the ability to delay aging and the illnesses that come along with it. A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) used...
Kim Kardashian West is addressing her husband Kanye West's struggle with bipolar disorder in a heartfelt message on Instagram. The 43-year-old rapper's mental health has come under increased scrutiny in recent days after he launched a potential bid for president and unleashed a series of bizarre statements and tweets....
Actress Anna Camp took to Instagram on Tuesday and, in a lengthy post, revealed her “very scary” battle with coronavirus. “The panic of contracting a virus that is basically untreatable and is so new that no one knows the long term irreparable damage it does to your immune system is...
PhD Student Basti Stockmaier published his last empirical dissertation chapter entitled “Immune-challenged vampire bats produce fewer contact calls” in Biology Letters. He also presented a poster today at a virtual conference entitled “How do pathogens and parasites affect behaviour?“. I’ve posted a copy of the poster below. For obvious reasons,...
The day that Grade 10 classes ended for ECS (Miss Edgar’s & Miss Cramp’s School) student Vanessa Vassalos, she was already setting up her Parc Avenue pop-up shop called Essentiels COVID19, carrying PPEs and other stay-safe essentials. She vowed to donate a large portion of her sales to the Montreal...
Imagine tying your shoes or taking a sip of coffee or cracking an egg but without any feeling in your hand. That's life for users of even the most advanced prosthetic arms. Although it's possible to simulate touch by stimulating the remaining nerves in the stump after an amputation, such...
OnePlus has officially announced the Nord, its first serious attempt at a midrange handset since 2015’s ill-fated OnePlus X. Yet, despite the fact that it starts at just £379 (around $480), the phone shares a lot of the DNA of the $699 OnePlus 8 released just a few short...
The UAE has successfully launched its Mars probe, named Hope, making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. “We have lift-off. H2A, the rocket carrying the Hope Probe to space, has launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan,” the official account Hope Mars Mission tweeted early Monday...
A team of researchers have manufactured a non-cuttable material that could be used in bike locks. This new material, which could be used in the security and health and safety industries, can turn back the force of a cutting tool upon itself. The lightweight material — named Proteus after the shape-changing...