Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent
While small doses of inflammation can protect us from disease or injury, excessive amounts damage cells, which is believed to accelerate ageing.
9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury’s surface, new study finds
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Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought
That fact became a scientific silver lining to the bomb tests: The bursts of radiocarbon circulating through Earth’s system, scientists realized, were a lot like pulses of radioactive medical tracers traveling through a human body.
Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science
There are two possibilities here: either they are wrong, as scientific evidence suggests, and pointless legislation is now being cut and pasted across the world, or they are right and have now alerted their adversaries that this is a number worth paying attention to.
‘Unprecedented and inconceivable’: pylon falls over after nuts removed
Recently, in the International Journal of Advance and Applied Research, Hanumant Dattatray Shinde of Shri Padmamani Jain Arts and Commerce College calculated that, over the course of a year, “up to 1.56 TMC [thousand million cubic metres]” of water evaporates from the Ghod Dam.
Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies
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‘Space hurricanes’ churn at both of Earth’s magnetic poles
When the lines reconnect, they roil ionized gas in the ionosphere, driving flows of electric current upward, the team suggests.
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?
After the satellite data was collected, the team used a search-and-rescue computer model to see what paths it simulated for various objects that resembled the profile of a dead whale, including a skiff, a life raft and a small vessel called a panga, based on the same location and weather conditions.
How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion
Centering the patient during contraceptive counseling means validating and exploring their concerns and talking about “what you can do to support them in a treatment plan that feels good to them,” says Andrea Hoopes, an adolescent medicine physician-researcher at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.
Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia
Pfautsch, who is a professor of urban planning and management at Western Sydney University, also expressed concern about the project's reliance on public donations to keep afloat: "Continued state and federal government funding is critical to secure the growth of the trees," he said.
Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to improve lab-grown meat
Johannes le Coutre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, says he is sceptical of the work for numerous reasons, including that the flavour tests predominantly used an electronic nose to assess the chemicals being released, rather than human judgement of whether they smelled appetising.