Author Archives: Stan Flouride

The new vaccine causes the body’s immune system to home in on a protein called mammaglobin-A, found almost exclusively in breast tissue. The protein’s role in healthy tissue is unclear, but breast tumors express it at abnormally high levels, past … Continue reading →

The complex clocklike assembly of bronze gears and display dials accurately predicted lunar and solar eclipses, as well as solar, lunar and planetary positions. For good measure, the mechanism also tracked the dates of the Olympic Games. A new analysis of … Continue reading →

Latest research on the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia shows that the region’s first people, hunter-gatherers who arrived over 50,000 years ago, brought with them a rich art practice. Published this week in the archaeological journal Antiquity, the research shows … Continue reading →

My second rescued orchid bloomed yesterday and today. It is an Oncidium, this variety called “Sherry Baby.” It has a faint chocolate smell. Here’s one from online for clarity.

Found by a team from the German Archaeological Institute in a stone quarry at Baalbek in Lebanon. The limestone quarry was located about a quarter of a mile from the temple complex known as Heliopolis and houses massive building blocks … Continue reading →

It was hypothesised that the enzyme would not appear until the first alcohol was produced by early farmers. But scientists were amazed to find it 10 million years earlier, at the end of the Miocene epoch. The findings could explain … Continue reading →

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