ScienceWorld, also known as Eric Weisstein's World of Science, is a web site that opened to the general public in January2002. ScienceWorld includes more than 1,000 entries in many fields of science including: astronomy, chemistry, physics and biographies of many scientists. It is administrated by Eric Weisstein of Wolfram Research, Inc. who is the chief encyclopediaist assigned to the project. Wolfram Research is based in Champaign, Illinois, under the direction of Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science and Mathematica. ScienceWorld is also connected with MathWorld and several other encyclopedia projects. Although ScienceWorld is not an open-source project, there are significant contributions from well informed volunteers.
Cannibalism appears to be partly due to a brain disease, which is in turn caused by eating the brain matter of the dead.
Last week on Science~World we told you how doctors in the US have developed an inhaler to treat diabetics so that they don’t have to inject themselves several times a day with insulin.
A few weeks ago on ScienceWorld we told you about researchers in the US who have found that living to an old age is linked to the genes we inherit from our parents.
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