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An older man looking at his younger self

Stem cell therapy and vaccines

How they may reverse aging

Keratopigmentation better known as corneal tattooing has been used for cosmetic management of corneal opacities for centuries

Annular Keratopigmentation

Changing your eye colour with femtosecond laser

This attire could play a role in your medical results

Doctor, you make my blood pressure rise

Your high blood pressure results could be caused by an unsuspecting condition

A protest against AI technology being used in military warfare in London, UK

The future of warfare

New powerful and deadliest warfare weapons

The portable convenience of social media

Does social media trigger anxiety?

The unavoidable presence

A lightbulb drizzled in water and raising the awareness to the question of whether or not water can store energy

Can water store energy?

The quest for practicality

Dynamic and fluid evolution of correlating synergies in a quantum state

Memories, inheritance and asymptotic freedom of motion

Dynamical evolution of synergistic correlations in quantum states

Inflammation is part of the body's defense mechanism it can be acute or chronic

Are they the future of modern science?

A partial underwater view with sea life surrounding it, of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch/Gyre, located between California and Hawaii, photo by Justin Hofman at Greenpeace

Using enzymes to biodegrade plastics

A future solution to plastic pollution

E=mc2, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity

Can this ancient pursuit of knowledge be relevant again?

The quest for truth

In the future, holographic projections, VR glasses or even brain implants will likely remove burdensome headsets

Should metaverse subjects expect adverse effects?

Real threats and opportunities from the virtual world

A doctor examining a patient thoroughly leaving no stone unturned

Dealing with co-infections

Having a UTI, RTI, and a GIT infection at the same time

The myriad of platforms where your online reputation will be tried and tested

Online reputation

Have you been behaving?

Wastewater treatment

How is Morocco relying on wastewater?

Treatment plants and seawater desalination

Hydropower plant where water is used as a practical application to create energy

Practical applications for water

Harvesting electrical energy from water

An illustration of the liver which has a unique capacity among organs to regenerate itself after damage

The liver and regeneration

Is it indestructible?

Taking a road trip in the country with an EV is like “driving a rocket"

The midlife crisis car that is good for the environment

Why women love electric vehicles

Fight the Covid virus with new advances in medicine

New vaccines for Covid-19

Also for influenza (flu) and respiratory syncytial virus, RSV

Batteries at a storage system in Moss Landing, California USA that caught fire in September 2022

Protective conditions for solar facilities

In the event, a developer proposes one near you

The various devices and medications to treat and manage vitamin D deficiency, diabetes, and PCOS

The link between vitamin D deficiency, diabetes, and PCOS

How to identify & treat

The personification of the addiction people have when it concerns social media applications

The impact of social media addiction

Is it time to sign out?

The Sky Whale aircraft is a concept that focuses on the "green" aircraft designs of the future for the ordinary airliner planes of the twenty-first century

Role of AI in the aviation industry

Aerospace emerging technology

A child having what appears to be a pleasant dream as he lays in the middle of a wet road

Dreams: virtual or reality?

Is the state of dreaming a reality?

A bottle of water pouring some of its contents into a glass is the healthiest drink humans can have

Water: implications for health

The impact of water molecules

Physicists use seven-qubit quantum computer to simulate scrambling inside black holes

Are we all qubits at the bottom?

The wonders of quantum physics

Quantum computers are the future of computers

Are quantum attacks feasible?

The era of the quantum threats

The process of aging can be decreased with lifestyle changes

How to slow down and possibly reverse aging

Live a longer, healthier life

A woman clutching at her sore throat with both hands as it could be due to a case of acid reflux

Acid reflux listed as most common cause of sore throat

The complications and the solutions

Humanity accepting the inclusion of technology in our natural beings

The digital era and the future of people

Being human in the age of artificial intelligence

Gerry McGovern shows online meetings aren't as 'green' as we think

The ecological impacts of online meetings

Gerry McGovern’s work-in-progress

A metaphor depicting that nature and the environment are our responsibility and we must take action

The personal approach to climate action

Empowering the right behavior

How the water waves meet the water-loving surfaces and dance as they crash

The fourth phase of water

Toward a new understanding of nature and health

The monkey and the female human enjoying a peaceful and happy life in society

The laws of a peaceful life in animals and humans

Principles that play a fundamental role in animal and human societies

A villager in Vietnam uses the resources provided by nature in a sustainable method in the Anthropocene Epoque

Who is the human after the Anthropocene?

The relationship between humans and nature

There are more choices in electric vehicles now more than ever

Electric cars pay for themselves

How I saved $30,000 US dollars in gas and maintenance driving an electric vehicle over eight years

A woman riding her Bup-up bike on her back into town

Eurobike City 2022 bicycle fair

The bicycle is determined to replace the car, more than 1,500 exhibitors present solutions to transform mobility

Monkeypox virus closeup

Human monkeypox outbreak

Monkeypox symptoms, recommended treatments and how to reduce the risks of transmission

An unidentified flying object (UFO) hovering and camouflaged

NASA and the Pentagon vs. UFOs (aka UAPs)

What revelations are awaiting?

All the tools are there in dentistry to utilize the smart decision

The SMART way in dentistry

A valuable and innovative strategy

Solar panel. Like any products, solar PV systems need life cycle analysis (LCA) that includes their impacts from design to discard

Looking under the glass

Questioning solar power’s ecological impacts

Could this be God sending down His light?

Darwin's philosophy and the source of religious belief

Does God really exist?

A depiction of the quantum fields of turbulent flow from a planetary perspective

Quantum fields decomposition of turbulent flows

Prediction, monitoring, and communication in space weather forecasting

A child barely holding onto his book as he smiles and laughs uncontrollably

Smiling and laughing, similar but evolutionarily so distant

All components & ranges elaborated

Hemp seed oil is recognized as safe as it contains very little THC

Marijuana versus hemp

Recreational and therapeutic uses of cannabis

Covid-19. Not only vaccines, but also the natural immunity that is produced by a previous infection will help prevent more serious symptoms, including death

A subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading

New bivalent vaccines will target this and prevent Covid-19

Gazing at the Milky Way stars in the universe

What is beyond the edge of the universe?

From a chat with astrophysicist Dr. Charles Liu

Image of a tree through a four-season cycle. Imagine a world wherein every woman knows when she is fertile and infertile

Reproductive health in a digital era

When you want to know nature—not an app

Elderly couple: aging is unavoidable

Senolytics in antiaging

They say nothing lasts forever; we'll have to prove them wrong

DNA text: DNA ancestry test may include an ethnic assessment or evaluation

DNA Heritage in geopolitics

Countries in denial

This anticancer new drug is important in the field of immunotherapy

An experimental 100% success anticancer drug

It uses patients’ own immune system to cure their cancer

Smart buildings can reduce carbon emissions but do not require 5G connections

An avalanche of green reports won’t cool the climate

Who can trust industry claims about 5G’s sustainability?

Examining and prodding the origin of life

The origin of life examined

A new way to study the origin of life

Painting a New York City rooftop with reflective paint fights heat

When utilities warn of blackouts

Options for ratepayers who expect electricity 24/7

Wind power is a technology that collaborates with nature rather than manipulating it

Applying new technologies to stabilize the climate

Our dangerous faith in technical fixes

Monkeys eating in cooperation

Food cooperation in monkeys

Evolutionary origin of the division of food in humans

Maybe nature is not a place, but a cataclysm of ecological systems

What is nature?

Our environmental obligations demand an open dialogue

Stock Dove © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Woodland Birds in Central London

Bird watching in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

Mantoloking, New Jersey: in the US, by the end of the century millions of citizens could be forced to move due to climate change

Climate migration in the US

Would you relocate to avoid the risk of a natural disaster?

There are several drugs that have been studied that activate or increase the activity of Telomerase

Telomerase and senescent cells in antiaging

One of the world’s greatest discovery in the science of human evolution

In 1935 Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen published a paper showing one of the earliest mathematical descriptions of a wormhole or bridge

Wormhole and afterlife

Communication and Artificial Intelligence

Quantum suicide: each time the trigger is pulled, the universe splits to accommodate each possible outcome

Our immortal existence through Quantum suicide

The different interpretations of the Quantum reality

Quantum microscopic view

Adaptive signal processing and communication in multiple of scales

Plants don’t exist in isolation, but as part of a super organism that also contains microorganisms in a microbiome

Plants communicate through an underground web of fungi

This mutualistic association between fungi and plant roots is the most prevalent interaction between species in the biosphere

The Argan tree is a symbol of life in Morocco

The Argan tree is the Moroccan tree of life

A living example of perfect symbiosis between man and nature

Living and dying with allegiance to nature

While living in a techno-sphere

Environmental care: civic actors must be knowledgeable of the different choices their community will face

Local civic action against climate change

How can individuals use climate knowledge to enact change within communities?

Oxford University: universities will be the new training centers of universal wisdom

Future of universities

The Princonser method and innovation in research

Human being posing as a monkey while wearing a suit

Monkeys, mediocracy, and memetics

Infinite is the number of fools

Teal can be seen at close range at RSPB Lodmoor © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Birdwatching by the sea side

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Lodmoor in Weymouth

Solar power is one of the tools that can be immediately put to large scale use

The path to ecological prosperity

A fast solar response to the accelerating climate catastrophe

The fascinating world of Quantum Computing

Hello “quantum world”

Are you interested in developing applications with real quantum computers?

Scientists from the USA published a report of assemblies of heart and skin cells that replicated kinematically

Artificial life

Strange robots made from embryonic stem cells

The most efficient EV on the market emits 160g CO2/km (the least efficient 310g) while charging in Poland

Can electric vehicles steer us from energy storms?

Conditions for sustainable cars

Nuclear mushroom cloud

Powerful nuclear power

Balancing the risks and rewards

Rosy starling flock beginning murmuration, Bhigwan, Maharashtra (India) © Ashish Kothari

Does nature play?

Rebuilding our relationship with the Earth

Ancient people believed that entering the Underworld without reverence would be dangerous

Mining the sacred

Questions for a sustainable relationship with the Earth

Premature deaths due to fossil fuel combustion were estimated at 10.2 million persons in 2012

The forgotten war that nobody mentions

Air pollution by fossil fuels is a tragedy killing thousands

Quantum computing

Quantum computing a relational database

What is into that circle?

Without a shadow of a doubt, it can be said that all animals possess the property of consciousness

The Cambridge Declaration on consciousness

All animals can experience it but at a different level

Brent Goose in flight © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Wild Geese and waders in Essex

Birdwatching in Two Tree Island

Omicron variants have become predominant, causing as much as 98% of all new Covid-19 cases in the USA

Omicron subvariants' predominance

BA.1 and BA.2 are causing more infections but less severe symptoms of Covid-19

Some countries locking people up for being unvaccinated

I wanted to take Covid seriously

Try as I might, it just wasn’t working

The Web Summit 2022 in returned to Lisbon

Tech companies to watch out for

4 cool startups I found at the Web Summit

Green energy: a transition to renewable energy sources can provide both economic growth and ecological improvement

Building the new green republic

Individually and collectively, the ecological transformation is in our hands

The measurement of one strongly correlated particle has a direct effect on the other, regardless of the distance between them

Wormholes, tunnelling, and entanglement intertwined world

A scale-space description

Microbes can now be designed beyond traditional uses, through fermentation, to produce many other forms of proteins and flours

Eating microbes

Scientific breakthroughs offer myriad solutions to the global food crisis

Some distinguished scientists argue that one day it may be possible to replace the human mind with all its functions with a machine

Despite great optimism emulating the mind will not, almost certainly never, be possible

Breathing clean air: climate change impacts negatively on social and environmental determinants of health, such as air quality

Climate change intensifies health risks

Stronger public health systems and individual awareness are key to saving lives

Traditionally, ransomware spreads throughout a network

Ransomware attacks

Facts, prevention and response

The digital sector already produces much more C02 than aviation pre-covid

Reconciling 5G and sustainability in Brussels

A sensible policy for a regional government

Regular exercise is an example of primary prevention

Preventive healthcare

Three levels of prevention to improve wellbeing and reduce medical costs

Satellites: types include surveillance, weather, communications and military satellites used for spying

Omnipresent 'big eyes'

How long until mass surveillance destroys our freedom, privacy and democracy?

Boys are four times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism

Calming behavior in children with autism and ADD

A free, EMR-reduction protocol

Smart homes: home retrofits with the highest energy savings objectives are considered 'deep retrofits'

How to combat future energy price increases

Let's start with an energy diagnosis

Most flood-control dams were built to be reliable for about 50 years

Time to retreat

We built dams to protect us from danger; now many of them are the danger

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