During the Vietnam War, malaria surged, prompting Ho Chi Minh to seek help from China. This led to Mao Zedong initiating Project 523, where scientist Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin, a revolutionary malaria treatment. Despite initial secrecy, artemisinin's contributions to global health were eventually recognised, culminating in Tu's Nobel Prize in 2015.
The Fugate family's intermarriage amplified a recessive gene's presence causing the condition known as cyanosis - the blueing of the skin.
In 1976, an unknown bacterial disease killed 24 Legioneers at a conference in Philadelphia. What was this mysterious disease and where did it come from?
From 1993 to 2009, the German, Austrian and French police forces had a problem. There was a woman, moving around all of their countries, committing crimes from everything from burglaries to multiple murders.
In science, you often hear the phrase 'correlation does not equal causation'. It is a ubiquitous line in science that often requires a lot of explaining. One of the best ways to demonstrate correlation vs causation is a website by Tyler Vigen called Spurious Correlations. For example (see below), as the US government spends on… Continue reading The British Doctor’s Study: The Link Between Smoking and Lung Cancer
Life on Earth is always an interesting topic. It often does centre around Biology and how evolution forms a prehistoric prokaryote mutating and evolving into the wide array of life that we see on Earth, but Physics plays its part. Specifically, with density. The phenomenon of the density of water is responsible for life on… Continue reading Why the Density of Ice and Water is so Important to Life on Earth?
Today we look at science as the bastion of doing the right thing. Yes, there are certain recent developments that have questionable ethics, but after the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki human experimentation has since centred around 'informed consent'. The history of science has a dark past but if it wasn't for these past atrocities, significantly… Continue reading From Neglect to Outbreak: What is the History of Hepatitis at Willowbrook School?
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