• Study Shows How Genetics Play a Role in Mental Health Disabilities

    Study Shows How Genetics Play a Role in Mental Health Disabilities

    Mental health disabilities can be debilitating, and not just for the individual, but for friends and family members as well. Usually, mental health disabilities are shrugged off as being hereditary, and therefore there is nothing that can be done about it.  But there are actually two untrue statements in that last sentence.  To start, there…

  • Scientific First – Early Stage Human Egg Actually Grown in Lab

    Scientific First – Early Stage Human Egg Actually Grown in Lab

    In what appears to be a scientific first, researchers from the US and the UK have taken early-stage human egg cells and grown them into full maturity in the lab.  This is an incredible step in terms of what could eventually be big news for infertility treatments in women. This process in itself isn’t new. …

  • How Important is it to Know What Really Killed Off the Dinosaurs?

    How Important is it to Know What Really Killed Off the Dinosaurs?

    The massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, might also be responsible for triggering some equally massive volcanic eruptions beneath the ocean.  At least, that’s what some new research suggests.  What we already know is that about 66 million years ago, a 6 mile-wide asteroid crashed into the Yucatán Peninsula which caused a massive, worldwide earthquake. …