One of the most significant public health problems of our times in modern society is obesity. It affects thousands living all over the world and besides leading to serious chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart attack and strokes for example also raises that person’s lifetime risk for such an illness to one fifth or more. At…
The Moon is Earth’s only constant companion. A lunar cycle is almost one month long, and so it is easy to observe this change in nature night after night. “And the moon sees no Sunrise, For it has nowhere to rise,’ Cries the Scotsman with a frown. This comes in earth astronomy, but really one…
Only found in science fiction and speculative philosophy eighty-seven years ago, the notion of an ‘universe’ is now emerging as one of the most important and contentious topics of present-day physics. The idea that our universe might be just one of an infinite number of universes clashes with our notions of reality itself. The multiverse…