Archive for April, 2009

Keiji Fukuda, the assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, called the outbreak “serious” on Sunday. Researchers are still trying to determine how easily the virus is transmitted person to person and it’s too early to predict whether there will be a mild or serious pandemic, said Fukuda. CNN These are important ways that protect you from the Swine Flu. This information [...]

Public officials in the United States and Mexico are taking serious steps to stop the rapidly spreading of the newly identified flu virus “Swine Flue” that killed 68 people in Mexico. “This is an animal strain of the H1N1 virus and it has pandemic potential because it is infecting people,” Dr. Margaret Chan said. Mariachi musicians wear surgical masks as they walk past the Garibaldi [...]

Scientist in the United Stats are planning on growing Brussels sprouts on the moon to see if the moon’s environment can really produce its own food in the future. NASA in partnership with Paragon Space Development Corporation in Arizona set up a plan to land a mini greenhouse manufactured by Paragon on the moon which would be capable to growing flowers and hardy vegetables from the brassica family, [...]

A Russian patient was so relieved when the doctors informed him that he doesn’t have cancer in his lung. But the news shocked him when he learned that a fir tree is growing inside his lung. The patient Artyom Sidorkin, 28,  complained about chest pain and had been coughing up blood. The doctors in the in the beginning strongly believed that it’s a cancer. But when the surgeons opened his chest [...]

A surveillance video camera captured two men robbing a house in Florida, and the house owner had a live broadcast from her home because she had a feeling that someone might break into the house and steel it. Her feeling was right, the webcam helped her contact the police and stop the robbery. Watch the video provided by CNN Embedded video from CNN Video

A leading U.S hospital performed successfully the nation’s second partial face transplant. The procedure took place at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on a man who suffered sever injuries to his face during a car accident. The man couldn’t’ eat, smile or effectively interact with people. “It’s really difficult to live without a major part of the face — the social interactions, [...]

More than 70 years ago, some cars got 75 MPG. What has gone wrong since? In this video engineers, environmentalist, and entrepreneur Saul Griffith examines the numerical reality of the fight against climate change.

In a recent study at John Hopkins hospital medical school, showed that people who eat at least 2.5 ounces a day of broccoli sprouts, reduce their risk of getting stomach cancer and stomach ulcers. The study leader Jed W. Fahey said “the evidence is all pointing toward broccoli or broccoli sprouts being able to prevent cancer in humans”. The chemicals in broccoli that protects your stomach [...]