The Isdalen valley is an unforgiving place. It sits in the shadow of the largest of a group of mountains overlooking the Norwegian city of Bergen, its rocks whipped bare of grass by bracing
Disuse osteoporosis is bone loss resulting from reduced mechanical loading of the skeleton; the processes of bone formation and bone resorption,in which cells known as osteoclasts break down bone and release the minerals,
A mindset has slowly been spreading around the world, having emerged from the self-ordained capital of the health world in southern California. This mindset is that gluten is now the latest enemy
The world of viruses is a turbulent one. When they find their way into human populations they can spread like wildfire and cause serious disease, before seeming to slink away again. This
Whether it is in the observation of the natural world, or in the discovery of phenomena facilitated by our relatively recent scientific progress, the presence of repeating patterns in different environments and
Recently, I wrote a post about how we may find the solutions to some of our most baffling problems where we least suspect them. This one develops on that somewhat, discussing how
In all walks of life, but particularly in science, we are marching inexorably forwards at a rate almost unmatched by any other point in history. Daily, research that was at one point
On Boxing Day 2004, the Earth experienced one of its largest ever earthquakes. The infamous Indian Ocean earthquake and its associated tsunami was a hugely energetic seismological event, releasing the the same
We humans, we’re not all that keen on dying. Ever since the stories of the Fountain of Youth bewitched sailors and explorers in the 16th century, we have been fixated on finding
When Italian neurologist Pierluigi Gambetti characterised the condition known as Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), he described it as “the worst disease you can get”. Given the plethora of devastating diseases we can
