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Ένας Έλληνας επιστήμονας φέρνει στο φως μέσα από απανθρακωμένους παπύρους της Πομπηίας, την πρώτη καταγραφή της ψυχοθεραπείας της ανθρωπότητας. Ιστορία 1η: 79 μ.Χ. Η ηφαιστειακή έκρηξη του Βεζούβιου κατακαίει την Πομπηία, καθώς και τις γειτονικές πόλεις Σταβίες και Ηράκλειο, επιφέροντας το μαρτυρικ...

Όταν ήταν μικρός ήθελε να γίνει αστροναύτης ή επιστήμονας, αλλά πάντα ακολουθούσε τα βήματα του ήρωά του, του "Ζορό", του μασκοφόρου εκδικητή, γιατί πίστευε στην απονομή της δικαιοσύνης, όπως κι εκείνος, και γοητευόταν από τον μοναχικό αγώνα του εναντίον των κακών. Σήμερα ο κορυφαίος ερευνητής Γιάν...

It was a great movement on Earth Day! Thousands of scientists, academics and citizens, around the world from New Zealand to North Korea and from US to Australia joined the global March for Science sending their messages against the rise of a “post-truth” era and its threat to the academic world. Peo...

It’s called CancerSEEK the first experimental noninvasive blood test that could screen eight different cancers and localize their source. It was developed by an international research team based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. The team focused on breast, colorectal, esophagus, liver,...

Swiss drugmaker Roche confirmed on Monday October 30th the withdrawal from the «positive list» of drugs reimbursed in Greece of cobimetinib, used to treat melanoma in adults in combination with vemurafenib, after the government imposed a mandatory 25% discount on the reimbursement price of innovativ...

“The first time I felt a little awkward because I had never seen a breast with mastectomy and it was not an easy case. This woman had undergone many surgeries in her effort to make her breast look normal. We draw branches of flowers on it. One of them covered the missing nipple. The trust that we sh...