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A good number of deadly cancers are not known to many. Some of these cancers do not kill in high numbers, but when someone is affected, they become a terminal disease. A terminal disease is a disease in which if an individual contacts, he should be ready for his eventual death at any moment onward. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria has the highest rate of cancer in Africa, with the figure possibly reaching about 13 million in 2030. Every year, 10,000 Nigerians die as a result of cancer-related deaths, while 250,000 new cases of cancer are recorded annually. The list of deadly cancers common among Nigerian men include: leukaemia (white blood cells cancers), lung, colorectal (colon), liver, prostrate, throat, among the rest. However, the four top cancers are: prostrate, liver and colon and breast cancer.  1. Prostrate In a research work published in Pan African Medical Journal in August 10, 2013, a study carried out in Lagos to find out the rate at which men

A new "atomic memory" device that encodes data atom by atom can store hundreds of times more data than current hard disks can, a new study finds. "You would need just the area of a postage stamp to write out all books ever written," said study senior author Sander Otte, a physicist at the Delft University of Technology's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands. In fact, the researchers estimated that if they created a cube 100 microns wide — about the same diameter as the average human hair — made of sheets of atomic memory separated from one another by 5 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, the cube could easily store the contents of the entire U.S. Library of Congress. [10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life] "Of course, these estimations are all a little silly, but in my opinion, they help to get an idea of how incredibly small this memory device really is," Otte told Live Science. Information overload As the world generates m

The constant battle between pathogens and their hosts has long been recognized as a key driver of evolution, but until now scientists have not had the tools to look at these patterns globally across species and genomes. In a new study, researchers apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses' impact on the evolution of humans and other mammals. Their findings suggest an astonishing 30 percent of all protein adaptations since humans' divergence with chimpanzees have been driven by viruses. "When you have a pandemic or an epidemic at some point in evolution, the population that is targeted by the virus either adapts, or goes extinct. We knew that, but what really surprised us is the strength and clarity of the pattern we found," said David Enard, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the study's first author. "This is the first time that viruses have been shown to have such a strong impact on adaptation."

Users of increasingly popular street drugs called K2 or spice, which are made from mixtures of herbs laced with synthetic cannabinoids and other chemicals, are showing some incredibly strange behaviors. Indeed, as the use of these so-called synthetic-marijuana drugs escalate among U.S. teens and young adults — who typically smoke or vape the drugs — TV and newspaper accounts report that users are passing out on sidewalks, stumbling out into traffic, and "looking and acting like zombies." People on synthetic cannabinoid products can act anywhere from a bit confused to completely out of their minds, depending on the dose of K2 used and an individual's susceptibility to the drug, said Dr. Anthony Scalzo, a professor of pediatrics and chief of toxicology at Saint Louis University. "This is extremely dangerous stuff, and it's getting more dangerous" as manufacturers continually find new ways to tweak the chemicals in the drug to skirt laws th

Theresa May is set to become the UK's next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. She's expected to take over as the head of the government on Wednesday. The 59-year-old politician will take over from David Cameron, who announced he would be stepping down from the job last month. Mrs May, who backed staying in the EU, has been home secretary since 2010. Mrs Leadsom, who campaigned to leave the EU, said the UK needed "strong and stable government" and that Mrs May was "ideally placed" to lead the country out of the European Union. Theresa is the MP for the area of Maidenhead in the south east of England. She's also the Home Secretary, which is a big job in the government. It means she is in charge of things like police, keeping the country safe and immigration. Theresa started in politics by stuffing envelopes at her local Conservative club. She studied geography at university and her first j

 Gone are the days when sports are only for fun. Presently, it's a business with no limits,soaring thorough the boundary of talent marketing on the field and tracks to multi-billion dollars worth institution of human resource development. Unarguably, sportsmen and sports entrepreneurs constitute a large percentage of the world money bags.  The game has so much been influenced by this money flood, but the real effect lies in the attempt of these entrepreneurs to maximise gains by enticing the over ambitious lovers of these different sports—Betting. A BBC report on match fixing stated: "Fixing and corruption in sport has a long history. If you were to go to the site of the ancient Olympics in Greece you would find, outside the ruins of the stadium, remains of statues to their Gods. The statues were paid for by athletes and coaches who were caught cheating. Sports corruption goes back at least 2,800 years and some type of corruption will be with us for as long we continue to h