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Trimiterea oamenilor pe Marte este o promisiune măreaţă a secolului XXI - susţinută politic de Donald Trump şi tehnologic de Elon Musk -, dar şi una dintre cele mai dificile misiuni imaginabile. Costurile, riscurile şi necunoscutele sunt uriaşe,...

Sending humans to Mars is a great promise of the 21st century - politically supported by Donald Trump and technologically by Elon Musk - but also one of the most difficult missions imaginable. The costs, risks and unknowns are huge, even if the...

A groundbreaking new study by British researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Imperial College London brings to the fore a fascinating hypothesis: dinosaur fossils could contribute to the understanding of cancer and the development of...

Jurnaliştii şi reprezentanţii societăţii civile din 14 state membre ale Uniunii Europene au fost spionaţi, prin intermediul telefoanelor mobile, de către guvernele ţărilor respective, potrivit informaţiilor prezentate în urmă cu două zile, de...

Journalists and civil society representatives in 14 EU member states have been spied on via mobile phones by their respective governments, according to information presented two days ago by John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab,...

Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study published in the journal Science and cited by AFP. This contamination could pose a direct risk to the health of up to 1.4...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with experts in Finland, have developed an experimental chewing gum with high antiviral potential, capable of reducing the viral load in the oral cavity by more than 95%. The study,...

A pig liver has been transplanted into a human patient for the first time, Chinese researchers from Xi'an University announced. This medical achievement represents a revolutionary experiment in the field of xenotransplantation, but it does...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), nicknamed "forever pollutants," are a growing concern due to their toxic effects on human health, including the risk of cancer. These nearly indestructible chemicals accumulate in air,...

Humans have been polluting nature since ancient times, this is the conclusion of a study. Human-caused environmental contamination with lead in the Aegean region began approximately 5,200 years ago, about 1,200 years earlier than previously...

The missing of some climate change targets is confirmed by several institutions. Global average temperatures have exceeded the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the past two years, an EU monitor said, with the Earth recording...

There are concerns coming from the US. A tragic but not unexpected case has been reported in Louisiana, where the first death associated with the H5N1 virus in the United States has been confirmed by health authorities. The patient, a man over 65...

Artisan Coffee Gear deschide în Bucureşti primul hub dedicat antreprenorilor din lumea cafelei de specialitate, situat pe Şoseaua Străuleşti 29A, Sector 1, un spaţiu pentru business, experienţe şi evenimente, potrivit comunicatului remis...

Reporter: In EU Member States we are witnessing a debate on GMO and NGTs cultivation. Farmers would like to grow plants that give higher yields and are more resistant to climate change, frost and drought through genetic modification, while...

The world is warming and almost everyone is feeling it. 2024 will almost certainly be the warmest year on record, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The data was released ahead of the UN climate...

A recent case of bird flu in a pig in Oregon is the first detection of the H5N1 virus in this species in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced. The virus was discovered on a small farm that did not sell the meat...

At a time when our planet is undergoing irreversible transformations, experts warn that it is vital that humanity takes concrete measures to protect biodiversity. Reports from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...

The British-Romanian Chamber of Commerce (BRCC) organized the 3rd Edition of the Healthcare Forward - Shaping Tomorrow's Solutions conference, that took place this week on October 22nd, 2024, at the JW Marriott Bucharest.

Daily expenses scare Romanians more than environmental issues. According to a new report entitled "State of the Climate - Romania 2024", only 4% of Romanians consider climate change to be the most important issue of our time, compared to...

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Medical researchers bring new good news for humans. In the UK, a new £42 million prostate cancer screening trial has been launched with the aim of revolutionizing the way the disease is diagnosed and treated. The study, called Transform,...

Discussions about the laboratory creation of Sars-Cov 2 that led to the Covid-19 pandemic and about the immediate appearance of anti-Covid vaccines are simple assumptions, Dr. Adrian Marinescu, epidemiologist and medical director of the National...

The pharma industry has been in a real economic and financial boom for 20 years, which is supported by recent technical developments, biotechnological research-innovation and deepening research on DNA and every microcell in the human body. An...

Stopping the aging process has always been a challenge for humans. A recent study, published in the journal Nature Aging and conducted by researchers from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, brings new insight...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Freedom was wider before the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we hardly remember that until the year 2020 we lived completely differently. Moreover, epidemics had a profound impact on the history of humanity, shaping the course of civilizations and...

The National Veterinary Sanitary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced, yesterday, through a press release, that in our country there are 37 active outbreaks of plague of small ruminants, with a total of 218,756 affected animals. Of these,...

The bond between man and his pet is very close. The smell of stress in humans affects the emotional state of dogs and can push them to make choices considered more "pessimistic", according to a new study. Researchers from the University...

Slowing down the aging process can be achieved in the not too distant future. By blocking a single protein, scientists say they have been able to extend the average life expectancy of mice by about 25%, a success that raises the question of...

The days are getting longer, scientists say. Imperceptible to humans, but the change is not negligible. Climate change, which causes the melting of the polar ice caps, slows the Earth's rotation very slightly, which increases the length of...

Greed, bad decisions, wrong experiments have caused immense damage to nature. Humans, guilty of climate warming, represent the same "danger" for our planet as "the meteorite that exterminated the dinosaurs", declared the UN...

The planet is changing at the same time as the climate. The effects are devastating for certain species. The earth has changed under the effects of human activity and, in this new environment, infectious diseases proliferate. Recent studies have...

Medicina avansează şi reuşeşte să găsească soluţii pentru probleme medicale ce păreau imposibil de rezolvat cu câteva zeci de ani în urmă. Un rinichi de porc modificat genetic a fost transplantat în Statele Unite pentru a doua oară la o persoană...

Medicine advances and manages to find solutions for medical problems that seemed impossible to solve a few decades ago. A genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted in the United States for the second time into a living person who also...

April started with unbearable temperatures in certain regions of the world. According to a study, the unbearable heat wave that hit the Sahel region at the beginning of April is linked to "anthropogenic" climate change, scientists from...

Protecting historical monuments is an essential step for any self-respecting state. The government allocated, last week, through an ordinance that amends Law 422/2001 on the protection of historical monuments, funds to start a national program of...

The changes the climate is going through are not favorable to life. More than a fifth of the world's migratory species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and human encroachment, according to the United Nations' first report...

The CIA is competing with China for the use of new technologies in espionage, especially since the Asian republic poses the greatest threat to the United States in the long term, says CIA chief William J. Burns...

Space exploration has been a major concern for humans since ancient times. If for a long time the study was done from a distance, now things have changed. NASA's Perseverance rover has collected data confirming the existence of ancient lake...

Meteorological records fell one after another throughout 2023, and Europe was no exception. Last year was the hottest in the history of meteorological recordings, with a "remarkable" advancement, probably the warmest in the last 100,000...