Ancient people, using quantitative assessments of everything around them, noticed the inexplicable influence of certain numbers on various events in their lives. They attributed everything incomprehensible to magic, and this impact of assessment on natural phenomena and on humans themselves…
Three researchers from Australia, Japan, and the United States were honored with the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their contributions to the field of molecular design, the Nobel Foundation declared on Wednesday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences presented the…
An international team of researchers from Northwestern University (USA) and Yonsei University (South Korea) analyzed medical data from more than 9 million people from two large groups (or, as scientists call them, “cohorts”) in South Korea and the United States.…
Rats are extremely adaptable, intelligent and hardy creatures, able to survive in almost any, even the most extreme conditions. Their population is especially large in cities, where proximity to humans provides constant access to food and warmth, which is a…
A study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM) has shown that elevated levels of the protein albumin in the urine (albuminuria) may be an important predictor of dementia risk. Scientists from Sweden and the Netherlands analyzed data from…
Back in the early 20th century, the British Empire was “the sun that never set.” It covered a quarter of the world's landmass, had hundreds of millions of people as its subjects, and the British flag flew from Canada to…