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Greek News
Greek Scientist Unlocks Secret of Black Death’s Origins
A team of scientists headed by a Greek have unlocked the secret of the Black Death's origins. The pestilence is believed to have killed 30 to 60 percent of Europe’s population and one third of the population of the...
Greek News
The Greek Scientist Whose Work Could Help Exploration of Mars
Konstantinos Giapis, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech invented a completely new way of producing oxygen from carbon dioxide.
Medicine
Study Says Humans May Live to Be 130 by the End of the Century
A recent study suggests that it may be possible for human beings to live to the age of 130 by the end of this century.
Researchers have studied the biological lives of over 3,800 Italian 'semi-super-centenarians,' or people who have...
Ancient Greece
Carl Sagan on the Brilliance of Ancient Greek Scientist Eratosthenes
Carl Sagan, the American astronomer, author, and science communicator was renowned for making difficult scientific concepts understandable to the millions; he did exactly this at the beginning of his renowned series "Cosmos" by explaining the thought process of the...
Health
Scientists Regrow Legs in Frogs, Giving Hope to Humans
Scientists have grown legs in frogs through a new drug treatment that successfully regenerated the leg of a frog. The treatment is a landmark for regenerative medicine that may pave the way for human applications.
Scientists tested the cocktail of drugs...
Greece
Source of Strange Booming Sound in Thessaloniki Discovered
The source of the strange booming sound plaguing residents of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki was finally located on Tuesday.
Nearly every night since December, residents of the city have been jolted awake by the banging noise they describe...
Greece
The Mystery of the Greek Skeletons Found at Roopkund Lake, India
Researchers have determined that skeletons found at India's Roopkund Lake belonged to Greeks who visited the site in the 1800s.
Animals
Dogs Can Tell Difference Between Familiar and Unfamiliar Languages
Dogs are smarter than you think; according to recent research, dogs can distinguish between languages they are familiar with and those they've never heard before.
Researchers scanned the brains of 18 dogs with an MRI machine while the canines heard...
Greece
Scientists Decode DNA of Greek Feta Cheese
According to the Academy of Athens, scientists have now successfully decoded the DNA of the famous Greek Feta cheese.
Scientists from the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens studied a wide variety of feta cheese produced all across the...
Science
Human Brain Cells Learn Faster Than AI Study Finds
Researchers have recently taught human brain cells in a petri dish to play the retro videogame Pong faster than artificial intelligence (AI).
Scientists created what they dubbed the "cyborg brain" in order to measure biological neurons against AI. This "brain"...