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Writing as a therapy

Not long time ago, researchers found that writing could be a good therapy, it hurries the post-traumatic recuperation.
The idea was treated in the doctoral project of Peggy Penn at the Tilburg University in Holland. He says that among others, some rape victims recover very fast from their trauma if they talk about their experience and [...]

Children should drink milk to avoid osteoporosis

Drinking milk during childhood reduces the risk of developing osteoporosis. This is the conclusion of a study that was conducted by British experts from the Southampton University. The result was announced at a conference which is taking place during this week at Barcelona.

The study is part of a research program whose purpose is to gain [...]

Albert Hoffman, LSD’s ‘dad’ dies at the age of 102

The inventor of the most powerful synthetic drug in the world died at the age of 102 because of a heart attack, in Switzerland.
He was a chemist and a member of the Association for Psychedelic Studies. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD 70 years ago, while he was studying the utility of some psychedelic mushrooms that grow [...]

Germs are able to learn

The last researches related to germs show that these progress and are able to anticipate the exterior modifications.
The Escherichia Coli germs can associate higher temperatures (for example the temperatures that can be found in the human orbit) with the lack of oxygen. The germs modify their metabolism, anticipating the oxygen level changes.
For the researchers , [...]