98.6. Why does that number ring a bell? For years, the figure has held an important place in hospital rooms and physiology textbooks: 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) is widely considered to be the “normal” average human body temperature. …
LIFE after death is a certainty, an interfaith clinical chaplain has astonishingly told Express.co.uk. The controversial concept of an afterlife’s existence has fascinated philosophers and scientists alike for millennia. From ancient tribes to the modern Western world, people regularly perform…
This annotated image, captured by Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-1 satellite on Jan. 9, 2020, shows debris from the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran a day earlier, killing all 176 people aboard. Sharp-eyed satellites have spotted debris from the Ukrainian airliner…
A CT scan showed that the man had calcification in his right scrotum. An 80-year-old man in India developed a bizarre, eggshell-like material around his testicle — the result of a rare reaction to a chronic infection, according to a…
Two newfound cannabinoids have been discovered in the glands of the Cannabis plant, and one of them may be at least 30 times as potent as the high-inducing compound THC. No one knows, however, exactly what effect these cannabinoids actually…
Someday, specialized systems could barrage cancer patients with particles to deliver a full course of radiation therapy in mere microseconds, new research suggests. Using an emerging technique known as FLASH radiotherapy, doctors could eradicate tumors in a fraction of the…