Childhood cancer day many countries celebrate annually on the 15-th of February. This date firstly appeared in the calendar in 2001, upon an initiative of International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organization (ICCCPO).
The first International day was held on the 15-th of January in Luxemburg, however, later organizers decided to move up a date a month ahead. Today Childhood Cancer Day is arranged In more than 40 countries under the aegis of International Society for Pediatric Oncology. The relevance of problem to which current activity is dedicated, unfortunately, is increasing. According to the medical statistics, annually in the world more than 200 thousand children suffer from cancer, a half of them dies. The formula to successful treatment of oncological diseases is considered to be an urgent diagnostics.
If the illness is discovered at the first or second stages, healing often leads to the benign outcome. However, the tenth part of cancer cases is revealed only at the third state, and eight percent of children are detected concerning this illness only at the fourth state. The toughness is in fact that there are many forms of oncology – approximately 200 ones, and disease may start almost in each organ. Children are often involved with leukemia, or blood cancer. IN developed countries where doctors obtain all the necessary diagnostic equipment, currently three from four cancer-suffering children recover. Talking about emerging nations, the converse is true. It is verily in such states there are 80% of children with cancerous diseases.
Flying to Mars and back a person will get approximately 60 percent of the radiation doze that is considered acceptable for the astronaut in his entire career. Russian and Bulgarian scientists came to such a conclusion on the basis of the data received from the machine Trace Gas Orbiter of mission ‘Eksomars’.
Russian scientists found out the well-kept skull of Siberian unicorn, an extinct woolly mammal Elasmotherium sibiricum from the family of rhinoceros. The age of remains is 29 thousand years. The edition Science alert writes about that.
In the piece of amber at the market in Myanmar a fragment of feathery tail of the tiny dinosaur has been found. As the scientists told, this discovery is originated from the epoch not less than ninety-nine million years ago.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
Astrophysics from Institute of fundamental investigations Tata found out scratch in the earth’s magnetosphere maintaining the protection of the planet from the cosmic rays and solar irradiation.
Brown stone having been found out at the South of England more than ten years ago became the first in the history of science sample of petrified celebrum of dinosaur, as the researchers confirmed.
American meteorologists gave a possible explanation to the existence of the abnormal region at the south from Miami famous as the Bermuda triangle. The appropriate video is accessible at the web-site The Independent.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
The company of Elon Mask Space X represented program on colonization of Mars. Mask is planning to build a space ship able to have reached the Red planet for three months and take enough material for the construction of the base.
The group of experts from the USA and Israel used 3D-modelling and X-rays so as to decode passage in ancient Jewish scripture that was too fragile to fold it. However, they succeeded in it.
The astronomers notices the signs of origin of a new planet in the cloud of stardust around the star TW Water Monster located in 176 light years from the Earth.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
At Cayman Islands the first part of genetically modified mosquitoes are set free – with the help of them authorities intend to fight with the spreading of Zika virus.
Fires that have been set up by people of the epoch of Pleistocene (finished nearly ten thousand years ago) could have encouraged the appearance and spreading of tuberculosis. This fact has been revealed by the biologists from University of New South Wales.
62-year-old professor of Oxford university sir Andrew Wiles was awarded with Abel Prize of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for Fermat theorem proving. This problem has bothered mathematicians from all over the world for several hundreds of years.
