DERINKUYU THE UNDERGROUND MEGACITY

In 1963, a man in the Nevsehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room. The man continued digging and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city, part of the Cappadocia region in central Anatolia, Turkey.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

TURNING POOR QUALITY EGGS INTO HEALTHY ONES

Poor quality eggs are one of the reasons that some women struggle to get pregnant. But researchers at Stanford University developed a technique that helps women with ovarian insufficiency to produce healthy, mature eggs again. The process, called in vitro activation, involves removing an ovary or piece of ovarian tissue and treating it in a lab with proteins and other factors that help the immature follicles it contains to develop into eggs. The recharged tissue is then re-implanted near the fallopian tubes. So far, of the 27 women who volunteered to test the technique, five produced viable eggs, one woman is pregnant and another gave birth to a healthy baby.

NEWLY DISCOVERED SPECIES!!

BLIND FISH Bangana musaei



Subterranean blind fish, from the carp family of fish, measures 7.7cm

TRIMETHYLAMINURIA

For 14 years, Ellie James has been blighted by an incredibly rare and embarrassing genetic disorder.

The company director, 44, is one of only a handful of people with a condition that leaves her smelling of fish or rotten eggs.

DID YOU NOW?

FOOT BINDING

HEALTH BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA

A cup of green tea is a good way to start your day.

"It's the healthiest thing I can think of to drink," says Christopher Ochner, PhD. He's a research scientist in nutrition at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. "Green tea is beyond a super food."

In the past 20 years, thousands of studies have shown green tea’s benefits.

THE MAN BEHIND THE INDIAN SANITARY PAD REVOLUTION

A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads.

Arunachalam Muruganantham's invention came at great personal cost - he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society. But he kept his sense of humour.