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- CAGEs lock up fats to treat obesity
- Play sports for a healthier brain
- Scientists have developed a ‘vaccine’ to protect tomato plants
- Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
- Lighting Up Cardiovascular Problems Using Nanoparticles
- The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones
- In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others
- Rice, Amazon report breakthrough in ‘distributed deep learning’
- Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease
- When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died
| CAGEs lock up fats to treat obesity
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:36 AM PST  A new, orally administered liquid reduces weight in rats fed high-fat diets without causing side effects, pointing to a possible therapy for obesity, according to a new study from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Although the FDA has approved several drugs that … Continue reading CAGEs lock up fats to treat obesity |
| Play sports for a healthier brain
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:34 AM PST  There have been many headlines in recent years about the potentially negative impacts contact sports can have on athletes’ brains. But a new Northwestern University study shows that, in the absence of injury, athletes across a variety of sports – including football, soccer and hockey – have healthier brains than non-athletes. “No one would argue … Continue reading Play sports for a healthier brain |
| Scientists have developed a ‘vaccine’ to protect tomato plants
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:34 AM PST  When plants come under attack from invading bacteria, viruses or fungi, they mount a two-pronged response, producing both offensive chemicals to kill invaders and defensive chemicals to prevent infestations from spreading. Now, scientists at Stanford have used a type of chemical vaccine to switch on this plant defense system to prevent localized infections from becoming … Continue reading Scientists have developed a ‘vaccine’ to protect tomato plants |
| Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:32 AM PST  The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are “the canaries in the coal mine” for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Lonnie Thompson, one of the … Continue reading Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away |
| Lighting Up Cardiovascular Problems Using Nanoparticles
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:29 AM PST  Heart disease and stroke are the world’s two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global health crises is the common condition, atherosclerosis, or the build-up of fatty deposits, inflammation and plaque on the walls of blood vessels. … Continue reading Lighting Up Cardiovascular Problems Using Nanoparticles |
| The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones
Posted: 10 Dec 2019 04:45 AM PST  Earthquakes are sudden and their shaking can be devastating. But about 20 years ago, a new type of earthquake was discovered. We cannot feel them, and geologists still know very little about them, such as how often they occur. Regular earthquakes occur when rock underground breaks along a fault – a crack in the Earth’s … Continue reading The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones |
| In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others
Posted: 09 Dec 2019 05:14 PM PST  People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard to avoid. In nine studies conducted by the researchers, people rated the competence of … Continue reading In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others |
| Rice, Amazon report breakthrough in ‘distributed deep learning’
Posted: 09 Dec 2019 05:10 PM PST  Online shoppers typically string together a few words to search for the product they want, but in a world with millions of products and shoppers, the task of matching those unspecific words to the right product is one of the biggest challenges in information retrieval. Using a divide-and-conquer approach that leverages the power of compressed … Continue reading Rice, Amazon report breakthrough in ‘distributed deep learning’ |
| Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Posted: 09 Dec 2019 05:09 PM PST  A ketone-supplemented diet may protect neurons from death during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. Early in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, the brain becomes over excited, potentially through the loss of inhibitory, or GABAergic, interneurons that keep other neurons from signaling too much. Because interneurons require … Continue reading Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease |
| When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died
Posted: 09 Dec 2019 05:08 PM PST  What waddled on land but swam supremely in subtropical seas more than 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs were wiped out on sea and land? Fossil records show giant human-sized penguins flew through Southern Hemisphere waters – along side smaller forms, similar in size to some species that live in Antarctica today. Now the … Continue reading When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died |
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