by d_admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Nature
The passenger pigeon, also known as the wild pigeon, was a beautiful gregarious dove that migrated in flocks so enormous that they seemed to block out the sun when they flew over. Their rapid decline in numbers between 1870 and 1890 is often used as the poster child...
by d_admin | Dec 6, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Medical, Science News
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatally degenerative brain disease that is, thankfully, pretty rare but is also extremely hard to diagnose conclusively. The only truly definitive way to diagnose is a brain biopsy after death. That may be changing, at least in the cases...
by d_admin | Nov 8, 2018 | Biology, Chemistry, Innovation, Janice Willson
Global food waste or loss amounts to one-third to one-half of all food processed. This is an appalling amount considering there are people out there without anything to eat. This waste can happen at any point in the food supply chain and differs from low-income...
by d_admin | Oct 4, 2018 | Biology, Chemistry, Janice Willson, Science in the Real World
One of the more popular fads in the world of health and beauty are detoxes and/or cleanses. If you Google detox, 19,500,000 sites come up on this one topic! “6 Easy Ways to Detox…The Real Way to Do a Detox of Cleanse…The Best Detox Diets for Weight Loss…”the list goes...
by d_admin | Sep 27, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Nature, Physics, Science Quirkiness
The future of scientific research is in the infinite of space and in the details of the very smallest things on this planet and they are dark. Dark matter: you have probably heard the term but do you actually know what it is? Dark matter, in astronomy, are the...
by d_admin | Sep 6, 2018 | Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Janice Willson, Nature, Science Quirkiness
The world is so much weirder than we think and its bodies of water can be included in this statement. Water is clear, or not. Oceans are turquoise or blue, or sometimes grey when angry. Rivers and lakes can vary from brown to green to blue but not red or pink unless...
