Ebola Cola

Now, EbolaCola doesn’t normally do obituaries, but we feel that one is significant in this case. In today’s society more news coverage goes over the death of a TV personality, or an actor. These people may have touched the lives of millions; However, we tend to forget the brilliant minds that help to shape our society, further our knowledge of [...]

Brain boxes at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (Where else?) have recently developed a nifty little web tool called HealthMap. HealthMap gathers and utilises information from the world wide web to accumulate information on outbreaks of diseases, and pinpoints their exact location on a big worldwide map.
Or as they say over at Harvard, it is a ”multi-stream real-time surveillance platform that [...]

Well, indirectly maybe.
Scientists have recently discovered that lack of vitamin D can significantly increase your chances of an early grave.  Here are a couple of Vitamin D facts for those who don’t know:

Vitamin D is formed in the skin when it is exposed to ultraviolet rays present in Sunshine.
Vitamin D is essential in Humans to promote the [...]

Today, the Census of Marine Life launched a new website documenting the details of the millions of marine species known to man but they aim to index every single one of the marine species by 2010.
The indexers claim that many registers are incomplete or only focus on certain aspects of marine life and hope to [...]