Eyesight tests could be used to identify which people with Parkinson’s disease are likely to suffer from cognitive impairment and possible dementia 18 months later. UK researchers have found that people with Parkinson’s who perform less well in eye tests show worse cognitive performance a year and a half later. The study is one of … Read more
Thank your lucky stars Labour’s not in charge! Party’s proposal to shake up the pharmaceutical industry would leave Britain struggling to develop its own Covid vaccines, science experts warn The plan is revealed in a 50-page policy dossier titled ‘Medicines For The Many’ It was unveiled at 2019 Labour Party Conference, before first Covid case … Read more
Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency team up to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft engine that could get us to Mars in just three months The firms will explore the potential of nuclear power as a source of energy A nuclear-powered spacecraft engine could cut journey times to Mars in half They could also reduce the dose of … Read more
House Of Cards creator Beau Willimon tapped to develop TV series based on strategy board game Risk By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 00:52 GMT, 12 January 2021 | Updated: 00:52 GMT, 12 January 2021 Popular board game Risk could be heading to screens. The creator of the Netflix series House Of Cards, Beau Willimon, … Read more
The coronavirus R rate in Britain could be anywhere between 1.0 and 1.4, SAGE said today as studies estimated that 70,000 people are catching the infection every day and the new variant accounts for 61 per cent of cases in England. SAGE’s reproduction rate, which shows how many people each infected person passes the virus … Read more
More than half of all coronavirus transmission comes from patients who are asymptomatic, a new report reveals. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at a model in which people with COVID-19 were at their most infectious on day five of their illness. They found that a total of 59 percent … Read more
Not all fat is created equal and some can actually help us combat several health conditions, a new study suggests. Scientists from Rockefeller University in New York City have discovered exactly how so-called brown fat benefits our health. Also known as brown adipose tissue, brown fat’s main role is to turn the food we eat … Read more
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of wealthy and well-connected parents. One of his grandfathers was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and highly controversial idea, that one species could ‘transmute’ into another. Transmutation is what evolution was then … Read more
Babies’ language skills develop faster if their parents ‘engage in conversation’ with them rather than just talking over them, study finds Experts monitored the language 5-8 month old babies were exposed to at home They then looked at the activity in the language centres of the infant brains They found engaging in conversation led to … Read more
Saudi Arabia could develop nuclear weapons if Iran becomes a nuclear power, the country’s foreign minister has warned. Adel al-Jubeir said it is ‘definitely an option’ for the Middle-Eastern state to develop nuclear capabilities if its rival Iran could not be stopped from making one, according to reports. He reportedly told DPA news agency that … Read more