Science

A rhesus monkey, cloned for the first time, has made it to adulthood, living for over two years. This, as reported by Nature Communications, is the first successful cloning of its kind. Unlike the method used for Dolly the sheep...

A previously unknown underwater volcano eruption off Santorini, six times larger and 520,000 years older than the Minoan eruption, has been discovered by an international scientific team. A professor from the University of Athens was also on the team. The...

Medicine played a central role in Ancient Greek culture, as it did in history at large. The oath of Hippocrates is still taken by young medicine students internationally today. Ancient Greek medical practices date back to the very early Mycenean...

A recent extensive examination of how much carbon dioxide was in the air way back and how hot it was paints a worrisome picture of where our Earth's weather might be going. The new study looks at rock records from...

We all know that we need to do our part to save the Earth, but the hardest part is knowing where to start. Everyday, it seems like there's a new headline about how humans are destroying the planet. Under...

Researchers have found a new type of antibiotic that seems capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria. The bacteria, which doesn't respond well to many medicines is one of three that has proven to be especially tough to handle. The newly discovered...

The first successful liver transplant from a living donor, specifically from a father to his daughter, took place in Greece this week. The operation took place at Athens’s Laiko Hospital, as announced by Deputy Health Minister Irene Agapidaki in a...

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Greece were given special acknowledgment in a video titled "frying in zero gravity." The European Space Agency posted the video on its Facebook page. In the video, the Group Dynamics of Multiphase Systems team...

Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) delved into the mysteries of gold and platinum's origins. Their research provides a fresh perspective on how these precious metals made their way to shallow pockets within Earth's mantle. The study,...

Researchers have come up with a new innovative method in the elimination of cancer cells. When scientists shine near-infrared light on aminocyanine molecules, they begin vibrating together. This synchronized vibration is potent enough to rupture the outer walls of...

Thirty years ago, Brazilian scientists started looking into an interesting outcome of getting bitten by a banana spider: the venom caused people to experience priapism, which is a painful and long-lasting erection. Inspired by the spider's venom, these scientists worked...

AI read an ancient Greek word from a text damaged by Vesuvius in 79 AD, marking a major milestone in decoding the Herculaneum scrolls. The Greek word 'πορφύραc,' which translates to "(Tyrian) purple" in English, carries a rich cultural connotation...

Eötvös Loránd University scientists Dr. Ádám Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai have made a new breakthrough in figuring out why we age. Their research focused on something called "transposable elements" (TEs) in our DNA. Think of TEs as movable parts...

Computerized artificial intelligence (AI) has analyzed a 2000-year-old burned parchment, and found mention of the generals and usurpers who succeeded Alexander the great, who is also spoken of in the text as "the good king who was ruling as...

A recent study, published on December 7th in the journal Cell, examined the DNA of people living in the Balkan region between 1 and 1000 CE. Experts concluded that there is no sign of Italian ancestry from the Iron...