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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in Risk of Brain Tumors
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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in Risk of Brain Tumors

Longstanding fears that using mobile phones may increase the risk of developing a brain tumor have been reignited recently by the launch of 5G (fifth generation) mobile wireless technologies. Mobile…

2 April 2022 · 4 min read

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

Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in…

19 March 2022 · 5 min read

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

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 means electricity is being transferred…

14 March 2022 · 4 min read

Repurposing FDA-Approved Drugs To Combat All COVID-19 Variants – Including Delta and Omicron
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Repurposing Drugs To Combat All COVID-19 Variants – Including Delta and Omicron

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 to replicate in human cells, according…

25 February 2022 · 5 min read

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

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 black holes. In the past…

18 February 2022 · 6 min read

Planetary Bodies – Where Water and Life Could Exist – Observed for First Time in Habitable Zone of Dead Star
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Could water and life exist in the habitable zone of a dead star?

Planetary Bodies – Where Water and Life Could Exist – Observed for First Time in Habitable Zone of Dead Star A ring of planetary debri studded with moon-sized structures has…

12 February 2022 · 5 min read

Whales Gulp Down Food Underwater Without Drowning
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Here’s How Whales Gulp Down Food Underwater Without Drowning

Ever wondered whether whales can burp, and why they don’t drown when they gulp down gallons of water and krill? New UBC research may just hold the answer. Researchers found…

29 January 2022 · 4 min read

Mystery of Origins of Earth’s Water solved by Ancient Space Dust?
Meteorites on their way to Earth and breaking through the atmosphere. Credit: Elements of this image furnished by NASA- earthmap for 3Drender; courtesy University of Glasgow

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Mystery of Origins of Earth’s Water solved by Ancient Space Dust?

Analysis of ancient space dust could solve the mystery of the origins of water on Earth. In a recent paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers…

22 January 2022 · 9 min read

Super-Resolution Imaging of a Single Cold Atom on a Nanosecond Timescale
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Super-Resolution Imaging of a Single Cold Atom on a Nanosecond Timescale

The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress in the research of cold…

7 January 2022 · 3 min read