This baby elephant cried for 5 hours after his mother elephant attacked him twice at a China ZOO. Shortly after the baby elephant was born at the Shendiaoshan Wild Animal Nature Reserve in China, his mother stepped on him for the first time. The veterinarians thought and hoped this was […]
In a recent study by the Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland, scientists compared the effects of coconut oil and toothpaste and concluded that there are some advantages of choosing coconut oil over regular toothpaste. Even though you don’t necessarily need to ditch toothpaste and use only coconut oil, adding […]
According to Northwell Health spokesperson, large doses of vitamin C, among other meds, are being given to patients in the ICU at some hospitals in New York who have the coronavirus. The vitamin is given intravenously in quantities far over the RDA which is 90 mg for men and 75 […]
A team of scientists from Canada has succeeded isolating a strain of the COVID-19 and they’ve grown lab samples to help the study of the pathogen responsible for the deadly pandemic. The researchers are from the McMaster University, Sunnybrook Research Institute, and the University of Toronto, all of which are […]
Even though the COVID-19 disease and its responses impact everyone, older people are at a higher risk. Before the virus affected more than 100 countries globally, early Chinese data showed that the older people were the most vulnerable to the disease’s worst effects. Now, this data, along with research from […]
According to conservationists, two very rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in the north-east of Kenya. Rangers have discovered the dead bodies of the two female giraffes- a mother and her calf- in a village in the county Garissa. A third white giraffe is believed to be alive, […]
A research team from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis successfully used human stem cells as cells able to produce insulin. This important breakthrough may have big implications for more than 420 million individuals worldwide who’re diagnosed with diabetes. The cells helped control the blood sugar levels […]
The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in London will be recruiting 24 people for a study that will try to find a vaccine for the COVID-19. Volunteers will be paid £3,500 if they want to participate The centre explains that the volunteers will be injected with two weaker strains of […]
Most of you reading this have probably wondered, at least once, what your friends think of you, right? And, according to new research on friendship and brain activity may provide the answers. But, do we really want to know? According to a study from the Journal of Personality and Social […]
A team of Californian researchers has identified the most helpful flowers for bees as an effort to aid the conservation of the North American bumblebee whose population is declining. In the world, there are around 20,000 known species of bees, 4000 of which are US native, according to the US […]