Nov 17, 2023
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered as a future disruptive technology that involves the use of computerised algorithms to dissect complicated data. Among the most promising applications of AI is in medical diagnostic and imaging, performing tasks of...
Oct 30, 2023
Abstract Air pollution, especially in urban areas, has been for a long time a very important risk factor for a range of health problems including premature deaths, but in particular with cardiovascular adverse effects and respiratory diseases. Air pollution is a...
Oct 13, 2023
Abstract DeepMind started as a start-up and working on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Established in London in September 2010 and was acquired by Google in 2014 with the acquisition price of $500 million. DeepMind’s AlphaFold digital engineers worked...
Oct 4, 2023
Abstract Human history and many narratives in ancient civilizations contain several myths and legends of extraterrestrial stories and visitations of aliens on Earth. Over the thousands of years many different cultures have regarded meteors and comets as supernatural...
Sep 26, 2023
Abstract Anthropogenic pollution of the oceans is a global problem. There are many causes of ocean pollution. Scientists and environmental experts agree that in the last decades anthropogenic pollution of the oceans is widespread, worsening, and in most countries...
Sep 7, 2023
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have presented unequivocal evidence for human induced climate change and biodiversity decline. At present...
Jul 14, 2023
Abstract Aspartame is used as a nonnutritive sweetener in about 6,000 food products globally, found in Diet Coke, chewing gum, yoghurt, confections and other food products. After several decades of research on artificial sweeteners with the purpose to reduce obesity...
Jul 13, 2023
Abstract Poverty is a state of deprivation in which people or communities lack access to resources and basic necessities needed to live a healthy and dignified life. Living in poverty means not being able to afford medical care or access to basics such as electricity,...
Jun 27, 2023
Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a major technological force in the world today, transforming many aspects of human lives on a global scale. From healthcare to transportation, AI is revolutionizing the way we live and work with revolutionary...
May 24, 2023
Abstract Plastic pollution is a serious global environmental problem. Plastic pollution can alter habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to climate change, directly affecting millions of people’s livelihoods, food production...
May 9, 2023
Abstract. Cancer is a disease caused by changes (mutations) to nuclear DNA. Cancer in humans is a large group of diseases with the common characteristic of normal cells becoming cancerous and multiply uncontrollably with the ability to grow and spread to normal human...
Apr 10, 2023
Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is used to build and develop an intelligent application from scratch with the help of Machine learning and DeepFeep learning capabilities. DeepFeed, is a powerful social media management platform leveraging the latest in...
Mar 28, 2023
Abstract A well-balanced diet provides all of the energy humans need to keep active and healthy. Diets contain also the appropriate nutrients (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, dietary fibre, fats) that every person needs for metabolism, growth and repair. Keeping...
Mar 15, 2023
Abstract Most scientists support the theory that life originated from the prebiotic chemistry of early Earth. For decades, this was one of the most intriguing unsolved questions in biology. Proteins are considered as the workhorses of the living cell and have been key...
Mar 1, 2023
Abstract According to British Lung Foundation indoor air pollution is connected with toxic gases, various oxidative dusts, volatile organic (VOCs) and inorganic chemicals in the indoor air of buildings. Indoor spaces are considered houses, where people spent 85% of...
Feb 13, 2023
Abstract Global warming and climate change in the last decades cause the increased frequency of extreme weather events around the globe. In the last year, 2022, the world witnessed very high temperature records, extensive droughts that showed sinking of river and lake...
Jan 27, 2023
Abstract Every year thousands of popular science books are published, mostly in English language, to feed readers’ imagination and provide useful knowledge on scientific discoveries and research subjects which evoke a sense of wonder and make people marvel at the...
Jan 23, 2023
Abstract On 13th of December 2022, the head of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other federal scientific leaders announced that an experiment of nuclear fusion reaction they ran at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved “net energy”....
Jan 17, 2023
Abstract Growing global municipal solid waste (MSW) reflects the world’s industrial and consumer culture of the last decades. Globally, people in developed and developing countries are discarding growing quantities of domestic waste due to the unprecedented rate of...
Dec 9, 2022
Abstract The most important and urgent global environmental problem at present is rising surface temperature from increasing greenhouse gases and the association with climate change. In the last decades Hydrogen has been touted as a wonder green fuel from transport,...
Nov 16, 2022
Abstract The scientific consensus among researchers and environmentalists is that there is a large number of environmental problems, of which 12 are urgent and most important global environmental issues that humanity needs to resolve in the next 30 years (2050)....
Oct 12, 2022
Abstract Since 1990 and for the first time in the history of human civilization, most newborns have very high chance to live their adult life for more than 65 years and beyond. With the global population experiencing extra years of life, the wellbeing of older adults...
Sep 22, 2022
Abstract. The 2019 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) on cancer deaths was a large comparative risk assessment framework that was used to estimate cancer burden attributable to behavioural (or so called lifestyle risk factors), environmental, occupational, and metabolic...
Sep 9, 2022
Abstract. Energy in the form of controlled fire changed dramatically the course of human evolution on planet Earth. Fire allowed early humans to stay warm, cook nutritious food and meat, kill bacteria and pathogenic microbes, ward off predators and gave the...
Sep 9, 2022
Abstract Proteins are on the top of the list of the most important biomolecules that contribute to virtually every biochemical activity in the human body and other biological species. Knowledge of the 3D structure of proteins was fundamental for their function and...
Jul 5, 2022
Abstract In the last decade of the 21st century, young people under the age of 25, represent a significant portion of more than 40% of the world population and more than 25% of the total working age population. The current generation of young adults is very different...
May 20, 2022
Abstract. Plastics are exceptionally useful materials for all kinds of consumer items, but poorly managed plastic waste breaks down in smaller pieces contributing to land and ocean pollution with microplastics and nanoplastics. Rapid growth in global plastic...
Apr 11, 2022
Abstract. Humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) were the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedalism, language, and large, complex brains. They lived as hunter-gatherers foraging and hunting to collect food from their environment. Controlled...
Mar 10, 2022
Abstract, Μarine pollution due to plastic waste is a globally recognized threat that needs effective actions of control and mitigation. Continental plastic litter is flushed into the oceans by storms andriver systems or is directly discharged into coastal waters. At a...
Feb 10, 2022
Abstract Τhere ιs overwhelming scientific evidence that anthropogenic activities, especially burning fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas), are leading to increased levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the Earth’s atmosphere. This process amplifies...
Dec 9, 2021
Abstract. Energy from the Sun was the fundamental contributing factor in the emergence of life and evolution of living species on Earth. Extensive use of fire, and later fossil fuels by humans contributed to their technological advances but followed by a crucial...
Nov 18, 2021
Abstract. Biodiversity is the variety of all living things on Earth (plants, animals, microorganisms), and how they fit together in the web of life, bringing oxygen, water, food and a great number of other material and cultural benefits for the human civilization....
Oct 25, 2021
Abstract.Global plastics production reached 368 million metric tons in 2019. Exceptional properties, such as low cost, lightweight, high strength and durability, make plastics suitable for manufacture on a wide range of useful products and industrial materials. But in...
Sep 16, 2021
Abstract. The Big Bang model is the widely held theory of the evolution of the universe from a state of extremely high temperature and density that occurred 13.7-13.8 billion years ago. The solar system, Sun and planets, was formed ~4.5 billion years ago. For...
Jul 26, 2021
Abstract The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is accelerating in the last decade, but it needs urgently an expansive infrastructure and new technological breakthroughs. As trends of the motor manufacturers shifts from fossil fuels to all-electric, visions of a...
Jun 30, 2021
Abstract The five systems of Earth: geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact to produce the earthly known environment. Global forests play fundamental biophysical, biogeochemical, hydrological, economic and cultural roles in the Earth...
Jun 3, 2021
Abstract. Energy, water and food were and still are three interwoven and major elements that ensured human civilization’s survival. This intricate relationship is known as the water-energy-food nexus (WEF).Energy sources played a crucial role for the development of...
May 14, 2021
Abstract Food production addresses one of the most important and basic human needs and has developed in parallel with the evolution of humanity to ensure steady provision, safety and variety of food as well as improved nutritional erosion, climate change) in modern...
Apr 16, 2021
Abstract The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) was institutionalized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 to estimate the causes of death and disability worldwide for hundred of diseases. The WHO collected and analysed large numbers of data from...
Mar 22, 2021
Abstract. Ecotoxicology is a multidisciplinary research area investigating toxic effects of environmental pollutants and contaminants on biological populations, communities, and ecosystems. Wildlife toxicology studies can be traced to the original research efforts of...
Feb 16, 2021
Abstract The United Nations in 1995 initiated annual international conferences of all countries to focus on the threats of climate change, rising temperatures and future reductions on greenhouse gases (GHG). In these global conferences government representatives and...
Jan 26, 2021
Abstract: In ther last decade, there is a dramatic increase in forest wildfires and biomass burning on a global scale consuming millions of square kilometers of forest and cultivated land. Scientists suggest that detailed investigational studies are needed to...
Dec 17, 2020
Abstract. On 31/12/2019, World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, China, that was placed under lockdown on the 23 January 2020. But almost half of the population of the city (total 11 million) was already on...
Nov 10, 2020
Abstract. In October 2020, Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Plank, Berlin) and Prof. Jenniffer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”. For many years genome editing...
Oct 26, 2020
Abstract. Since the pandemic COVID-19 began in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in China, scientists were wondering why the infectious disease is more deadly in people with obesity, even if they are young. A number of clinical studies have reported that many of the...
Oct 1, 2020
Abstract . Scientists date the “Big Bang” to about 13.8 billion years ago.The solar system was dated at about 4.5-4.6 billion years ago forming the central star, the Sun, and orbiting planets. Planet Earth is unique because it has about 70% of its surface covered with...
Sep 2, 2020
Abstract. Water is essential to human life and health. Safe drinking water from contamination and readily available in houses and working places is a fundamental health factor to humans, but also connected with longevity, economic growth and reduction of poverty....
Aug 5, 2020
Abstract. Malaria has prehistoric origin as a lethal human infectious disease. At about 10,000 years ago, malaria disease started having a major impact on human survival, coinciding with the start of civilization of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution. Malaria can...
Jul 16, 2020
Abstract. Globalization of tourism in the last decade has been one of the most fast expanding and profitable economic sector in many countries. Inevitably, the recreational use of coastal waters has increased dramatically all over the world. In 2018 there were a...
Jul 1, 2020
Abstract The history of vaccines and immunization to combat infectious diseases goes back many centuries. Chinese employed smallpox inoculation as early as the 16th century. But the scientific history of the creation of the world’s first vaccine for smallpox started...
Jun 11, 2020
Abstract. COVID-19 lockdowns worldwide in 2020 have resulted in dramatic reductions of emissions from closed factories, reduced vehicular road traffic, shut down of airline flights and other activities using fossil fuels. In most countries with increasing numbers of...
May 11, 2020
Abstract. Scientific studies of the last decades prove that to reduce the rise in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius over the preindustrial baseline, (1750) of our industrial civilization needs to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of carbon...
May 5, 2020
Abstract. Organic synthesis in the last century was a scientific and experimental branch involved in the practical synthesis of organic chemicals from simple chemical reagents to highly compicated molecular structures for the chemical industry and for research...
Apr 7, 2020
Abstract Cancer is one of the most important global health problem. The Global Burden of Disease estimated that 9.56 million people died prematurely as a result of cancer in 2017. Medical professionals agree that improvements in the application of prevention and...
Mar 26, 2020
Abstract. Infectious diseases have plagued humanity since the earliest days of civilizations. Civilizations and subsequent history have been altered profoundly by the outbreak of pathogenic infectious diseases that decimated societies and killed millions of people....
Mar 17, 2020
Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI), even prior to its inception many decades ago has aroused both fear and excitement. The misconception that “intelligent” artifacts should necessarily be human-like has largely blinded society to the fact that for many decades...
Mar 2, 2020
Abstract In the last decades the world witnessed globalization and the unstopable advancement of disruptives technologies (or innovations), such as the acceleration of digital revolution, the explosion of automation and robotics applications, the rapid digitisation of...
Feb 13, 2020
Abstract: Proteins are very important biological molecules of living organisms, made up of hundreds of smaller units called amino acids. Proteins perform or catalyse nearly all biochemical and mechanical processes in biological cells. Most proteins spontaneously...
Jan 30, 2020
http://chem-tox-ecotox.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RENEWABLE-ENERGY-SOURCES-ELECTRICITY-2020.pdf Abstract. In December 2015 (Paris Agreement) 174 countries and the European Union agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to limit the global average...
Dec 12, 2019
Abstract In 2016, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Frontiers report identified a series of global and emerging environmental problems that bring new challenges for the national and international envronmental agencies and sustainable development...
Nov 19, 2019
Abstract. The stratospheric ozone layer has been the centre of scientific interest for many decades for its fundamental role in the protection of any form of biological life on Earth’s surface from damaging Sun’s ultraviolet radiation (UV). From the 1970s there was...
Nov 1, 2019
Abstract Planet Earth in the solar system is called the “Blue planet” because of the vast oceans that cover 2/3 of the surface. Water and the atmospheric envelope surrounding the Earth are the most important factors supporting biological life. The surface of the Earth...
Oct 25, 2019
Abstract Undoubtedly, Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionised the lives of humankind in the last decades. They have laid the foundation of a wireless civilisation, forming the powerhouse for the personal digital electronic revolution. They are currently the dominant...
Oct 14, 2019
Abstract In the last decades drug design and discovery changed dramatically, based on the one hand on previous knowledge of succesful drugs of medicinal chemistry, and on the other hand supported by the development of sophisticated and powerful new techniques such as...
Oct 8, 2019
Abstract. Nanotechnology has been hailed as a revolutionary technological advance with numerous applications in a great variety of medical fileds. Particularly inventive has been the field of nano-medical applications that can change dramatically diagnosis and...
Sep 12, 2019
Abstract The global rise of the number of smokers of electronic-cigarette (e-cigarette) who changed from conventional smoking of tobacco cigarettes in the last decade is a very interesting phenomenon which is connected with questionable benefits to human health....
Jul 22, 2019
Cancer comprises many different diseases (estimated at more than 200 types of malignancies), all characterized by accumulation of DNA damage and uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells with capacity for spread to healthy organs and form malignant tumours. The...
Jun 5, 2019
Abstract. Healthy human diets and daily physical activity are key factors for a long and healthy life. Unbalanced consumption of foods high in energy (salt, sugar, starch and/or animal fat) and low in essential nutrients and vitamins (fruit, vegetables, pulses, whole...
Jun 4, 2019
Abstract Tea is the most consumed beverage globally following only fresh water. International statistical data showed that global tea production amounted to 5.7 million metric tons in 2016. The countries leading the top list for tea production are China, India, Kenya,...
Mar 26, 2019
Abstract. In 2006 our research group in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Athens (Greece) was researching antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation in mussels in relation to toxic metal pollution in the Saronikos Gulf (Piraeus, Greece). Additionally,...
Feb 7, 2019
Abstract Epidemiological and clinical studies have found that consumption of saturated animal fats (butter, cream, cheese, red meat, processed meat foods, etc) and higher risk for heart diseases are connected. Medical practitioners in the USA were the first to raise...
Jan 24, 2019
The “Cultural Revolution” was, launched in China by President Mao Zedong (1966) and was the most profound social convulsion and political crisis that the People’s Republic of China has ever undergone. The “Cultural Revolution” represented the triumph of...
Nov 20, 2018
Abstract. Carcinogenesis of the respiratory system has been a widespread disease. In 2012 a total of 1.8 million lung cancer new cases were recorded, accounting for around 13% of all new cancer diagnoses. The most important risk factors for respiratory system cancers...
Nov 13, 2018
ABSTRACT Bread is the most important staple food of humans from the prehistoric time. Baked bread is integral to human health with plenty of major nutrients, antioxidants and vitamins. After thousands of years, it remains the most regularly consumed food in the world,...
Sep 28, 2018
ABSTRACT. Worldwide studies in the last decade have evaluated the short and long-term exposure of fine and superfine ambient particulate matter (PM) air pollution with mortality and morbidity. It has been established that ambient PM contribute to increased risk of...
Sep 21, 2018
ABSTRACT OLIVE OIL-CVD-CA-NEURO- REVIEW-20SEPT-2018 .The term Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) refers to dietary patterns found in olive‐growing areas of the Mediterranean region (Southern Italy, Spain, Greece, France, etc). Olive oil is the foremost source of fat in the...
Jul 25, 2018
Abstract. Circular Economy (CE) is a concept that would turn goods at the end of their service life into resources for others, closing loops in industrial ecosystems, minimizing waste and following sustainable methods. A report of the European Commission in 2014...
Jun 25, 2018
Abstract The European Union voted in April 2018 to ban three controversial neonicotinoid insecticides on all crops grown outdoors because of their adverse effects on pollinators, especially honey bees. The decision caused quite a stir in the farming community because...
Jun 5, 2018
Abstract. Περίληψη. Το βιβλίο αυτό (2012) είναι μία εκλαϊκευμένη και διδακτική παρουσίαση του όρου Πράσινη Χημεία (Green Chemistry) και Πράσινη Τεχνολογία (Green Technology) όπως προτάθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 1991 από τον χημικό Paul T. Anastas σε ένα εξειδικευμένο...
Jun 1, 2018
Abstract. Plastic materials were a major milestone that led to improvement in the quality of the lives of human beings. Plastic became very important material and in the last decade production passed the 320 million tons worldwide. It is estimated that less than 50%...
Jun 1, 2018
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Mar 13, 2018
Abstract. Glyphosate, is an herbicide that was introduced by Monsanto under the trade name Roundup in 1974 and in the last decade became the most widely used agricultural pesticide worldwide. It allows farmers to kill weeds but not the crops that will grow...
Feb 6, 2018
Abstract. The Ecosystem Approach (EcAp) is an ecological strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way. Application of the ecosystem approach is thought that will...
Feb 4, 2018
Abstract. The 21st century showed big changes of economic growth in developed and developing countries, especially in China and India, substantial population increases and rapid urbanization worldwide. Inevitably all these changes contributed to a dramatic increase...
