November 23, 2019
Operating a heart can be almost impossible if the organ cannot be isolated and stopped temporarily. Surgeons today can provoke cardiac arrest and use heart-lung bypass, […]
November 10, 2018
In 1826, English gardener and architect Joseph Paxton was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire. He was just 20 when he started working for […]
August 16, 2018
(Photo: Michael Darter) We have all seen the video (2008) of Robbie Maddison jumping on a motorcycle to the top of the Arc de Triomphe in […]
August 15, 2018
British scientists at the Toxicology Unit of the Medical Research Council, in Leicester, believe they have just a found a drug that could stop dementia and […]
August 14, 2018
Because there are few materials than can compete with plastic in durability, versatility and malleability, it is difficult to replace. There is plastic in virtually everything […]
August 11, 2018
April 2017. Doctors at a hospital in Toronto had to perform a radical intervention that had never been tried before to try save a woman’s life. […]
August 10, 2018
(Photo: Dean Fisher, director of the Donated Body Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine, photographed by Spencer Lowell) How our bodies are disposed of […]
July 10, 2018
Chatterbaby is a free app equipped with artificial intelligence that analyses changes in frequency and patterns in the sound to silence ratio in the cries of […]
July 9, 2018
“Do No Harm” is a book that helps us understand the human drama that neurosurgeons have to face every single day. Brain interventions carry huge risks […]