Month: March 2020

  • COVID-19 is a Challenge for the Entire World

    COVID-19 is a Challenge for the Entire World

    The emergence of COVID-19, which started in China and is now spreading globally, is now a challenge for the entire world, when it comes to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Infectious diseases like COVID-19 “pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities,” write federal scientists from NIH’s National Institute of…

  • Omega-3 Fats Do Not Protect Against Cancer, Say UK Researchers

    Omega-3 Fats Do Not Protect Against Cancer, Say UK Researchers

    Omega-3 fats are widely promoted as protecting people against cancer, but two recent papers dispute this notion. Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK found that increasing the consumption of omega-3 fats can slightly reduce deaths from coronary heart disease but also slightly increases the risk of prostate cancer. In the study,…

  • Why the Universe Didn’t Cancel Itself Out After the Big Bang?

    Why the Universe Didn’t Cancel Itself Out After the Big Bang?

    A property of the neutron particle may help clarify why matter and anti-matter didn’t cancel themselves out after the Big Bang that lead to the creation of the universe. Researchers at the University of Sussex are measuring the “electric dipole moment” (EDM) to explain why there is matter left after the Big Bang and why…