Author - Ana Kiesse Zeleme

A Recently Discovered Type of Salty Ice Can Feed On the Surface Area of Extraterrestrial Moons

Jupiter's moons,also called Europa, have thrilling red streaks all over it´s surface. Scientists believe it's a frozen blend of water and salts, (like salty ice). Its chemical mark is unknown considering that it has no recognized substance on earth.Researchers discovered two new crystals made from water and table salt at low temperatures, below about...

Immersive New App Permits Customers to Manage Their iPhone Using Eye-Tracking Innovation

Credit: CanvasAthena Accessible Modern technology launched a life-changing free application that allows clients to control an iPhone with their eyes. The app, Athena Eye Control, utilizes eye-tracking as well as AI to determine when, where, and just how quickly someone reads and also promptly scrolls the display screen as necessary.There are no brand-new user actions...

Constant Air Pollution Exposure is Associated to Future Depression

Credit: CanvaA study published online on February 10th in JAMA Network Open revealed that there is a link between prolonged exposure to polluted air and depression at an older age.A study conducted by Xinye Qiu, Ph.D., and colleagues from the Harvard T.H. Chan College of Public Health in Boston investigated the association between damaged...

SwitchBot’s New Matter Hub is Also a Temperature and Humidity Sensor

Credit: Android HeadlinesLast month at CES 2023, many of the new smart home items featured also work with Matter, which should not be a shock, given what it is currently available. Furthermore, jumping on that news is SwitchBot, which has just presented its new Matter Hub. Though, it does more than include support for...

A Current Cell Model for the Human Lung

Fluorescence staining of Arlo cells. The image shows the overlay of a staining of cell nuclei (gray) and the tight junction protein 1 (blue) and was taken with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Credit: HIPS/BoeseThere is a very long process before the approval of a medicine, a new  drug or a healing substance. It...

Reconstruction of Two-Billion-Year-Old Enzyme Solves Mystery

Credit: Scitech DailyMolecular biologists and bioinformatics scientists working at One DirectionThe focus of the study was on a type of enzyme famed as tRNA nucleotidyltransferases, that links three building blocks of nucleotides in the C-C-A sequence to small RNAs named transfer RNAs. To supply amino acids for proteins inside the cells. Directed by Professors...

Data Scientist says that Many Bigfoot Sightings May Be Bear Sighting

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFloe Foxon, an info researcher with Pinney Associates, reflected on the number of bears living in parts of North America with the diversity of Bigfoot that has been seen in areas throughout time and believes there is a correlation.Foxon spoke on a current investigation that relates visualization of Bigfoot and bears...

Teaching ants to detect cancerous tumors in mice through their sense of smell.

Schema of the experimental device (arenas). (a) Set-up used during the conditioning phase. The time to find the reward was noted. (b) Slightly modified set-up used during the memory tests. The time spent by the ant in the vicinity of the odors (areas, in dashed lines) was recorded during 2 min. Each area measured...

Using Origami DNA to Trap Big Viruses

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101237A group of scientists from the Technical University of Munich and the College of Regensburg, both in Germany, has discovered that it is possible to develop origami DNA frameworks that can be used to trap large viruses. In their paper released in the journal Cell Reports Physical...

Ancient Chimeras Were Suction Feeders, Not Shell Crushers

Iniopera reconstruction. Credit: Richard Dearden / University of BIrminghamA rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimera has revealed new hints of the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous time, some 300 million years ago.Ancient chimeraA research study led by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the University of Birmingham revealed an ancient...