Dan Buettner has made it his life's work to research the world's longest-living people. The 63-year-old coined the term "blue zones," which refers to the places around the globe where residents' lifespans exceed the average life expectancy. His research covered a variety of factors, in...
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In this research work, the effects of myrtle essential oil (MEO) and Caucasian whortleberry extract (CWE) as natural additives were investigated on mechanical, physico-mechanical and antimicrobial properties of gellan/polyvinyl alcohol (G/PVA) film. Then, optimal blend active films were used for...
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Gerty Cori was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine; she shared the prize with her husband. The couple discovered the Cori cycle, which explains how cells use food and convert it to energy through the muscles. Their research led to development of treatment...
Who discovered algal blooms? The other study once thought to be the earliest description of a toxic algal bloom was published in 1878 in the journal Nature byGeorge Francis, a South Australian chemist. In that paper, he described surveying the shores of Australia's Lake Alexandrina to find the...
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the...
Everyone was glued to their trackers, trying to make sure they didn’t miss their people, even though we discovered the tracker was more of an approximation that an accurate minute-by-minute feed, and it often glitched. In between the first and second lap I was able to take a small ...
Raised in a tightly-knit Catholic family, he discovered his passion for acting during his time at Washington University in St. Louis. His career took off when he landed a role in the critically acclaimed film Dead Man Walking in 1995. However, it was his performance in Boys Don't Cry in...