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Protect Yourself Against Heart Attack and Stroke – Train Your Blood Vessels

Protect Yourself Against Heart Attack and Stroke – Train Your Blood...

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A heart attack occurs when an artery carrying blood and oxygen to the heart becomes obstructed. Short, repeated bouts of restricted circulation using a...
500,000 American Men Get Vasectomies Every Year – A Specialist Explains the Quick and Simple Procedure

500,000 American Men Get Vasectomies Every Year – A Specialist Explains...

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This year, many vasectomy patients are young or single men concerned about unwanted pregnancy at a time when abortion care may not be...
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in Risk of Brain Tumors

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in...

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Longstanding fears that using mobile phones may increase the risk of developing a brain tumor have been reignited recently by the launch of 5G...
The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart Disease

The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart...

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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up...
Zero Wasted Electricity: Working To Revolutionize the Way We Live With Superconductivity

Zero Wasted Electricity: To Revolutionize the Way We Live With Superconductivity

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University of Houston Researchers Exploring the Bounds of Room-Temperature Superconductivity. In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It...
Repurposing FDA-Approved Drugs To Combat All COVID-19 Variants – Including Delta and Omicron

Repurposing Drugs To Combat All COVID-19 Variants – Including Delta and...

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Several FDA-approved drugs — including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV — significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2...
We Think We’ve Spotted the Mysterious Birth of a Black Hole

We Think We’ve Spotted the Mysterious Birth of a Black Hole

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Image of a Wolf Rayet star – potentially before collapsing into a black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on...
Planetary Bodies – Where Water and Life Could Exist – Observed for First Time in Habitable Zone of Dead Star

Could water and life exist in the habitable zone of a...

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Planetary Bodies – Where Water and Life Could Exist – Observed for First Time in Habitable Zone of Dead Star A ring of planetary debri...
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Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets

Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing...

Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots

Traces of beeswax were detected in 3500 year-old clay pots like this. Credit: Peter Breunig, Goethe University Frankfurt Scientists at Goethe University and University...

Of Mice and Spacemen: Understanding Astronaut Muscle Wasting at the Molecular Level

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting...

Critically Endangered Iconic Great Apes in Borneo Lost Muscle During Fruit Shortages

A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan...

DNA Analysis Identifies First Member of Ill-Fated 1845 Franklin Expedition

Facial reconstruction of individual identified through DNA analysis as John Gregory, HMS Erebus. Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo With a living descendant’s DNA sample,...

Preliminary Data Suggests Mixing COVID-19 Vaccines Increases Frequency of Adverse Reactions

Research, from Com-COV study comparing mixed dosing schedules of Pfizer / Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, shows increase in the frequency of mild-moderate symptoms in those receiving...

No Lasting Benefit to Surgically Placed Tubes Over Antibiotics for Childhood Ear Infections

There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during...

Genetic Risk of Heart Disease May Be Due to Low Omega 3-Linked Biomarker Found in Fish Oils

Genetic Risk of Heart Disease May Be Due to Low Omega 3-Linked Biomarker Found in Fish Oils People who are genetically more likely to suffer...

Magnetoelectric Chips to Power More Efficient Computing Devices

Magnetoelectric Chips to Power a New Generation of More Efficient Computing Devices Harnessing the Hum of Fluorescent Lights for More Efficient Computing The property that makes...

Brand New Physics of Superconducting Metals – Busted

Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconducting metals is nothing but hot electrons after all. A team...
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