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1st online editions of Voyage of the Beagle have been made available

Image by cpurrin1 via Flickr The 1st editions of Voyage of the Beagle have been recently made available in the site darwin-online.org.uk were you can find the complete work of Charles Darwin. This site has the complete publications of Darwin, thousand of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalog ever published besides [...]

“Magic mushroom” is expected to cure cancer

Extracts of the fungus Phellinus linteus that in the wild grows on mulberry trees and that is widely used in Japan, Korea and China for medicinal purposes may help fight cancer by slowing the growth of tumors and starving them of blood. Extracts of this fungus have been used for centuries in Eastern Ancient medicine [...]