The vertebral column, most commonly known as the backbone, though also referred to as the spine or simply spine, is made up of the several bones called vertebrae. There are doughnut or disc shaped bones, called inter vertebral discs, that have a lot of cartilage in their structure along with a...
Blood viscosity is the measure of how thin or thick the blood fluid is. When blood is thin, it flows smoothly and the transport of nutrients and body wastes is faster. When blood is thick, blood flow is sluggish and there is a tendency for cholesterol to get deposited in the walls of the blood...
Sigmund Freud was perhaps one of the most famous psychologists in history. He was the first to create psychological theory that have created critics and have been the basis for other theories. He was a Jew who fled to Europe particularly in England to avoid the growing oppressions and hostilities...
On Friday, December 31, 2010, a flock of approximately 2,000 red winged blackbirds fell dead from the sky and dropped to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas. Mayor Mike Robertson reported to the Associated Press that he has enlisted 12 to 15 Environmental service workers, armed in environmental protection...
Scientists from cambridge University and Edinburgh University have developed the first genetically modified "super" chicken resistant to bird flu. The team published a report in Science Journal stating they devised the "super" chicken for the intention of preventing outbreaks of avian influenza...
A supposed leaked document suggesting that the Higgs boson, a subatomic "God Particle," has been discovered by a team of physicists working from the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The supposed discovery is considered to be possibly one of the "most interesting" scientific finds...
Hurricane Sandy has been dubbed a “Frankenstorm” by governmental researchers and forecasters as it poured over the Caribbean and left 41 dead in its wake. This category 1 storm is predicted to meet with a polar air mass over the Atlantic and is predicted to make landfall on the East Coast of the...
Are you the type of person who enjoys working with numbers, figuring out odds and probabilities, and taking chances? If so, then you may want to consider a career as a statistician, where you can be paid to crunch these numbers and figure out odds and probabilities responsible for huge decision-making....
An "extraordinary" study has found that older pessimists outlive optimists. In fact, a group of researchers from Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg led by Frieder R. Lang may have proof in that old cliche that "only the good die young." Lang and his team published this study in the American...
It was 40 years ago when Apollo 11 created history. Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin had made it to the moon which was certainly an incredible feat achieved by mankind. Today, in a public reunion of the Apollo 11 crew, two of the crew members Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin said that...
