A tumour is shown to the press ahead of the operation at Xijing Hospital in Xi’an, China.
A Chinese woman is to have surgery to remove a 25 kilogram tumour on her back. Sun Fengqin, from Inner Mongolia, said she was born with a yellow birthmark on her back. “My family didn’t pay [...]
A car-crash victim in Belgium laid in a hospital bed for 23 years, diagnosed as being in a vegetative state. Now, in an unbelievable tale, it turns out he was aware of everything going on around him but could not communicate because he was paralyzed.
“I was shouting, but no one could hear me,” 46-year-old Rom [...]
Should children be allowed to get dirty?
That’s exacly what new U.S. medical research suggests — because too much cleanliness can apparently interfere with the ability of the skin to heal!
According a report in Nature Medicine by a team from the School of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, normal bacteria living on [...]
Piecing together 3000 individual photographs has made a new panoramic image of the Milky Way. Dr. Axel Mellinger, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics at Central Michigan University, spent 22 months and traveled over 26 000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan from 2007-2009.
The [...]
These strange formations may look like the results of a gigantic sneeze in the sea but experts fear they might be a dangerous sign the world’s oceans are warming.
The scientists in this video studying the ghastly looking ‘blobs’ think they are caused by sea creatures becoming stressed by changes to their surroundings.
Marine Science [...]
A colossal new ring has been identified around Saturn.
The dusty hoop extends some 8 million miles from the planet, about 50 times farther out into space than its more familiar rings.
Scientists tell the journal Nature that the tenuous ring is probably made up of debris kicked off Saturn’s moon Phoebe by small [...]
