Offshore wind energy is, as the onshore wind, an application of the force produced by the wind. The difference from the ground gained is that the wind turbines (windmills) are located offshore. The cost of installation is much higher than land areas, but also its lifetime is greater. Furthermore, the costs of foundations and anchors [...]

The consumption of chocolate is “strongly associated with reduced cardiac mortality in people – not diabetic, who have survived a heart attack,” says the study published in the September issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine.
And this beneficial relationship is dose dependent, meaning that increases with the amount ingested, the study goes on to say [...]

A biotechnology firm creates a promising treatment
An experimental treatment developed by Genentech firm of US has obtained through genetic modification allowed a vegetable substance significantly reduce cancerous skin tumors developed, according to results of a clinical study.
This drug, GDC-0449, taken orally, blocks a protein called “hedgehog”, which plays an important role in the growth [...]

The richness of life where mega Colombian landscapes contrast with the number of deaths that occur every year by one of the most malignant diseases of the XXI century. According to the American Cancer Society, 7 million 600 thousand people died worldwide by the disease in 2007.
Research Group of Animal Biotechnology at the National University [...]

The “tomato pill” contains lycopene which is one of the main ingredients of the Mediterranean diet, which is a well know diet proven to prevent heart disease. Lycopene is an antioxidant found in tomato skin, but in its natural form it is poorly absorbed.
During a study, the scientists mixed lycopene with milk and soya [...]

A group of cosmetic surgery doctors in Great Britain carried out the first transplant of eyelashes. The patient was a 19-year-old girl that suffers from tricotilomia, a recurrent compulsive behavior that consists of ripping the hair of the head and in some cases from different parts of the body. The operation had a duration of [...]

An Amazon plant would be able to constitute the base of a medicine to fight the fever of the dengue, according to Brazilian investigators. Uncaria tomentosa, this plant has antiviral properties and of regulation of the immune system, by its anti-inflammatory effects.
The infection of the fever causes fever, queasiness, headache and abdominal pain. As a [...]

El Salvador, thanks to its favorable climate, can produce biofuels from the sugarcane, according to a study coordinated by the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS).
For the ecologists “the environmental impact and the social consequences” of the production and massive commercialization of biofuels “generate increase of the deforestation of native [...]

The climate change debate offers a way to integrate forest management into development policy, but strategies must be informed by good science.
Conservationists have long recognised the role of forests in supporting indigenous people’s livelihoods in developing countries. In addition to fuel and building material, forests often provide critical supplies of food and medicine. They are [...]

The Chinese Ministry of Health banned the use of electroshocks “(low voltage electrical impulses) as a treatment for addiction to the Internet, a controversial practice that had taken many Chinese clinics.

The Health Ministry announced the ban after discovering this treatment at a clinic in the coastal province of Shandong, after finding “some dangerous factors in [...]