Technorati tags: wine, alcohol, science, health, heart, disease, red, white, lungs Every once in a while there seems to be another scientific study telling us about the incredible health benefits of drinking wine. I generally don’t like the taste of alcohol and may have a sip or two of wine once in half a year, […]
Technorati tags: dustmites, dust, bedding, sheets, allergy, asthma, science It’s not a joke, now you’ve got an excuse for not making the bed… Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies. A Kingston University study discovered the bugs […]
Technorati tags: science, history, stone age, neanderthals, humans Was it genocide, climate change or perhaps feminism that lead to the Neanderthals’ ultimate extinction? Recently a new theory about their end has emerged: stone age feminism. Among Neanderthals, hunting big beasts was women’s work as well as men’s, so it’s a safe bet that female hunters […]
Technorati tags: science, cloning, clone, embryos, monkey, stem cell, research It’s all about science today, after cloning Dolly, scientists have now reached a breakthrough with successfully cloning monkey embryos. This means great news for stem cell research. The embryos donor, Semos was a nine-year-old rhesus macaque, who is named after the ape overlord in Planet […]