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...
Guided by Dr. Michael Fradley, a group of scientists in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and also North Africa (EAMENA) project utilized a range of open-source satellite images to carefully study the area around the eastern Nafud desert, an region little researched in the past. The unexpected results, released in the journal...
Most moms and dads desire their kids to be intelligent as well as effective. And while some experts have motivated parents to teach their kids coding, new research is pointing to music as the entrance to smarter children. While coding does permit an excellent advantage when it comes to technology, it lacks several benefits that...
The world of science is everchanging and progressive. Every day a new scientific discovery is made. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Consumption of Microplastics Can Cause Evolutionary Changes After the non-biting midges of the species Chironomus riparius were exposed to microplastics, the genome of subsequent generations changed. Credit: Markus Pfenninger In April 2022,...
Credit: Joshi et al., Cell Reports, 2022 A new study by researchers in Spain reveals that human "look-alikes" who have comparable face features also tend to share many genetic resemblances, as well as also share certain lifestyle attributes. The research, released in the journal Cell Reports, gives some insight into the molecular genetic mechanisms that add...
Photograph of a soap film hanging on a frame constituted of a thermocouple probe. The radius of the soap film in this picture is R = 6 mm . Credit: Physical Review Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.268001 Ordinary soap bubbles are cooler than the surrounding air A team of Scientists at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, has found out that the...
Credit: lifestayleasia The world of technology is everchanging and progressive. All over the world new technology comes to life. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Asteroid deflected The asteroid Dimorphos was the target for this year’s test run of a potential planetary defense system—an impact from a fridge-size spacecraft that successfully altered its orbit....
Lake Gossenköllesee is located in the Tyrolean Alps. Credit: Christopher Bellas Though human beings, along with other vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, do not photosynthesize, we're certainly the downstream beneficiaries of the life forms that do. Phototrophic organisms at the bottom of the food chain convert plentiful sunlight into the energy that ultimately powers all other...
Credit: Thor Balkhed An artificial cornea made from pig skin might end our reliance on human donors and provide millions of individuals worldwide back their sight. The Challenge The cornea is a hard, transparent layer of tissue which covers the front side of the eye. It aids focus light on the retina, and if it is damaged...
Credit: Mojo Vision California startup Mojo Vision finally has a human wearing its smart contact lens-- bringing the future of AR, and superhuman sight, a major step closer. Augmenting reality Unlike VR, which replaces your view of the real world with all digital graphics, augmented reality (AR) places digital pictures on top of a real world display. AR...
