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Normal human body temperature is not 37 degree celsius any more.

      It's not 37 degrees anymore. Do you know what is the temperature of the human body? If your answer is 37 0 C , you have missed the updated information. A scientist from Stanford has found that our body temperature has dropped by 0.6 0 C since the civil war. Previously in the past, scientists have observed this change in our body temperature. But they could not believe the drop in temperature. So, they blame the thermometers for the discrepancy. But recent studies have confirmed that our body temperature has indeed  dropped by 0.6 0 C. The reason behind the temperature dropped of our body The main reason is the reduction in the overall level of inflammation thanks to vaccines, antibiotics and quality water. When  inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body's white blood cells are released into the blood or affected tissues to protect your body from foreign substances. This release of chemicals increases the blo...

Top 10 most revolutionary Nature articles of all time.

Template from Watson and Crick molecular Model, 1953 . Nature is one of the most recognizable and most cited scientific journals of the world with an impact factor of 43 (2018). Nature is edited and published in the United Kingdom by a scientific publishing company Springer Nature. Nature is a weekly journal. Being published in nature is very prestigious. Recently, on 04 November 2019, Nature published the top 10 most influential nature papers of all time. Here is the list with no particular order.   The structure of DNA: On 25 th April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced in Nature that they had elucidated the structure of DNA.  In the early 1950s, the identity of genetic material was still a matter of debate. This discovery of the helical structure of double-stranded DNA settled the matter and change the history of biology forever. The advent and rise of monoclonal antibodies: In 1975, Georges Kohler and Cesar Milstein first report how cell ...