The hidden “quarks” of birds: How quantum physics guides migration
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City lights and bird flights: How human activity affects migration
The tradition of treating travelers with respect has been a long-held one, spanning many cultures and periods. As early as the Greeks and Romans, townspeople were hospitable to any and every stranger in the hopes that one may be a god in human form testing them. However, it isn’t hard to find winged travelers that
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CAR-T cell therapy: How we turned our bodies Into weapons
Cancer has been around for as long as humans have. The oldest known case of cancer comes from a bone dating back 1.7 million years ago from South Africa. Its earliest written record comes from ancient Egyptian physician, Imhotep, in which he characterizes an incurable malady that was “bulging and spread all over the breast.”
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Curing old age: How genetic regeneration could turn back the clock
While wrinkle creams and wheatgrass shots may be all the anti-aging rage, the real secret lies within all of us. Put simply, aging is the slow progression of DNA damage. As cells replicate, approximately 100 base pairs of DNA are lost in what is known as the end-replication problem. Organisms have long developed a counter
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