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Quinoa was of great nutritional importance in pre-Columbian Andean civilizations, second only to the Potato, and was followed in importance...

QUINOA (pronounced KEEN-wah) originated with the Incas in the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It has been at...

Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria mutate and adapt to become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat the infections they...

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942. Penicillin...

The oldest elephant in Japan, Hanako, dubbed the world’s “loneliest elephant” by animal welfare activists suddenly came to international attention.

Besides the walking speed, people with MCI (mild cognitive impairment) may have problems with short term memory, keeping track of...

There is an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015. This number will almost double every 20...

An ultrafine bubble (also called nano bubbles) is the size of less than 1 micrometer. They are invisible to the...

Bubbles, they come in all shapes and sizes; bubbles contained in a liquid are visible to the eyes when the...

Although the risk of skyscrapers collapsing due to such motions is deemed small, the government estimate shows that the top...

The Japanese government has adopted two separate disaster plan since 2014. One addresses earthquakes of a magnitude-8 quake directly under...

Tokyo’s new guide to disaster survival, “Tokyo Bosai” (“Disaster Preparedness Tokyo”), was published on September 1, last year.

On September 1, 1923, one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes, the Great Kanto earthquake with Magnitude 7.9, struck the...

Hokusai settled on landscaping painting when he was about 38 years old, apparently much inspired by engravings brought in by...

Hokusai Katsushika was a painter during Edo Period (1615 -1868) in Japan and he was also best known for his...

The seahorse is a small species of vertebrate that is found in the tropical shallow and temperate waters around the...