Credit: Shutterstock Cinnamon Cinnamon, the well-known aromatic spice that many of us utilize to bake cakes and make savory recipes, is taken from the inner bark of Cinnamomum trees. They are evergreen trees found in the Himalayas and other mountainous regions, rainforests, and other forests in southern China, India, and Southeast Asia. Along with its unique flavor,...
A strange new illness might be responsible for severe, inexplicable inflammation in older men. Now, scientists have their first good look at who the disease strikes and how frequently. Credit: THOMAS BARWICK/STONE/GETTY IMAGES PLUS VEXAS syndrome, an illness discovered simply two years ago, impairs almost 1 in 4,000 men over 50, scientists estimate January 24 in...
Earth's inner core. Credit: Rost-9D/iStock The rotation of the Earth's solid inner core may have recently stopped briefly as well as could be reversing, according to a study released in Nature Geoscience this week. The authors show proof that oscillation in the rotation of the internal core coincides with periodic changes in the Earth's surface...
Medically accurate model of a tardigrade or water bear. The tardigrade, also called as the moss piglet or water bear is a strange, microscopic creature that appears like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not especially threatening. The pudgy, eight-legged, water-borne animal seems perpetually puckering. It's the farthest thing from what you...
A complex of Maya pyramids in Guatemala as seen via lidar. Credit: "LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization," by Richard D. Hansen et al., in Ancient Mesoamerica, Published online by Cambridge University Press December 5, 2022 Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a...
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101237 A 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...
Human and mouse neurons became connected via synapses. Credit: Giovanni Cancemi/Shutterstock.com Think of if lost, deteriorated, or diseased brain parts could be regrown in the laboratory and transplanted for a new lease on life. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have gotten us closer to that fact. Human cortical organoids (or 'mini-brains') transplanted...
(Shubhangi Ganeshrao Kene/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Alagille syndrome is a potentially deadly genetic disorder that affects numerous organs and systems, most notably the liver. Currently, there's no known treatment for it-- however, researchers have now identified a potentially effective therapy. Called NoRA1, the newly developed drug targets the Notch pathway, a cell-level signaling system in the...
Credit: James Yarema on Unsplash For the millions of people living with diabetic issues, insulin is a life-saving drug. Unlike many other medicines, however, insulin can not be easily provided by swallowing a pill-- it needs to be injected under the skin with a syringe or pump. Scientists have been making steps towards an insulin...
Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com The neurodegenerative illness affects millions of individuals globally. As our life expectancy grows, more individuals will be affected in the coming years. Tauopathies such as Alzheimer's illness are a class of neurodegenerative problems involving an accumulation of tau proteins, which gradually cause massive loss of brain cells. There´s little consensus about...
