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"If they are there, where are they?" - The Fermi Paradox and a contradiction faced by those considering the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.

A recent discovery, made at the University of Edinburgh, has uncovered a new possible drug target for the treatment of sleeping sickness, a parasitic infection caused by Trypanosoma brucei, which affects up to 500,000 people across central Africa.The crystal structure of phosphofructokinase, an enzyme involved in glucose metabolism, has revealed structural dissimilarities between the parasite and

In the late 19th century, Svante Arrhenius proposed that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the Earth's surface temperature, a phenomenon known as global warming. Just over 100 years since then, the first glaciers have already melted, sea level has risen by more than 6 inches and average temperature peaks to almost 1Ù’ C higher than it was.

During the Martian summer, NASA detected plumes of methane in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere of Mars: fueling renewed speculation about the possibility of life on the planet.Previously, only small amounts of methane had been detected in the Martian atmosphere, so the discovery that large amounts of methane is present suggests the gas is being released into the atmosphere each summer and