Tag Archives : Cambridge University

The ever elusive and mostly fictional cure to human aging could be as near as within the next twenty five years. Highly renowned and respected biomedical gerontologist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey has expressed his optimism that in the next two decades, doctors could very well be able to cure aging, thereby effectively removing the element of disease. If and [...]

Black holes, curved space, the slowing of time at high speeds, and a round Earth were all plain scientific heresy and tall tales before scientific experimentation started to prove otherwise. One of these tall tales at our present capacity to understand (given the current limited verifiable information on it) is the concept of the parallel universe. [...]

Discovered in an underground lake under the Taylor glacier in Antarctica is an unusual ecosystem where bacteria managed to live for millions of years without oxygen and in complete darkness at 10 º C below zero. The sea water was trapped under the glacier to form a lake that is about four miles long by 400 meters wide. It never froze due to the high [...]

Even the die-hard pessimists cribbing about having to spend more bucks to use an eco-friendly product, have to give in on this one. We may have a light bulb which is not only good for the environment, but could also reduce our electricity bills by three-quarters. Cambridge University researchers have developed cheap, light-emitting diode (LED) [...]