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Fossil fuels helped humanity improve our health, living standards and longevity in just 200 years Paul Driessen Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no longer “enjoy” the “simpler life...

Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be talking...

The deadly virus Ebola has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A new outbreak of Ebola stuck the northwest town of Bikoro with 21 suspected cases of the virus. Out of five samples sent to the DRC's National...

Scientists at Stanford University are currently preparing the first human test of a cancer "vaccine," a treatment that eliminated up to 97 percent of tumors during trials with mice. Appropriately 35 people with lymphoma...

Just when you thought we knew all there was to know about the human body, researchers revealed that they discovered an entirely new human organ. Called the interstitium, it consists of a series of fluid-filled, shock-absorbing...

sKan is an inexpensive device that can detect skin cancer at its early stages. The device creates heat maps to identify abnormalities in the skin often associated with melanoma, treatment for which has a higher success rate...

Researchers at Stanford University are developing a linear accelerator that is the size of a chip — instead of two miles long — and it could herald a medical breakthrough...

Two women from Honolulu, Hawaii, are basking in sweet relief as they and their dogs were rescued after spent five months stranded at sea in shark-infested waters...

Most people eat chicken eggs for their high protein content and healthy fats - but in the future eggs could ward off diseases, such as cancer and hepatitis...

In addition to aiding digestion, it turns out saliva can also power batteries. Researchers at Binghamton University discovered this while inventing a small, paper-based battery that generates energy when mixed with a drop...

Lyme disease is a growing issue in the United States. Since the 1990's, the number of cases has more than doubled. Scientists at a laboratory associated with the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School are working...

What if instead of prescribing medicine to treat a disease, doctors could prescribe fresh food to help prevent one? Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania is testing their food prescription idea with Fresh Food Pharmacy,...

Bacteria multiply In the West we could try to cure cancer faster with research like this, or we could pour billions into making expensive electricity to try to cool the world by 0.01°C for our grandchildren.  Hmm. What...

Last November researchers in China discovered a strain of bacteria that resisted all forms of antibiotics - including the "last-resort drug" colistin. Now, government officials have found the first case of an antibiotic-resistant...

Economist Lord Jim O'Neill recently released a report detailing the costs of not fighting antibiotic resistance. Bacteria resistance to drugs appears to have worsened, and O'Neill's report revealed that by 2050, 10 million...