Other works

Things I've been involved with, published elsewhere, original works and translations: Social media campaigns @SciCommJC twitter chat - science communication on languages other than English here Guest-hosting @IAmSciComm moments here @ILSI_Europe #JournalJourney research work popularisation…

Revisiting Cleopatra's remedies

Undoubtedly, many of you have heard of the famous milk baths that Cleopatra used to take daily, which were believed to be her secret to beauty and irresistibility. Not surprisingly, Cleopatra's example was followed by…

A molecule for eternal childhood

A new research led by UCL and the University of Milan finds a molecule important in blood vessel formation and brain wiring is also essential for the onset of puberty. From scientific point of view,…

Dinosaurs live again?

  Can we clone dinosaurs? Can we revive the long gone beasts and put them in theme parks? Have the time of "Jurassic world" arrived? A Nature letters publication called "Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China…

Smartphones to boost cancer diagnostics

Smartphones are becoming smarter by the day! Nowadays, we can use smartphone technology for so much more than just staying in touch - social activities, navigation, planning, computing, programming, analysis of data, and now -…

The biology of traffic jams and the pseudo-evolved…

Is Homo sapiens the higher species? Is complexity always superior? Why are ants better society that humans? A group of researchers published in Physical Review Letters an article on trafficking in ant trails, comparing it to human highways based…