Clinical Trial Shows Cocoa Diet Reverses Age-Related Memory And Cognitive...
A new study and clinical trial by scientists at Columbia University Medical Center has shown that in healthy human adults, a diet of cocoa that is rich in flavanols is able to reverse the effects of...
View ArticleWorld Losing 2,500 Hectares Of Irrigated Land Per Day To Salt Damage
A study by scientists at the UN University’s Institute for Water, located in Ontario, Canada, revealed that 17 million hectares of arable land has been lost to salinization in the period from 1995 to...
View ArticleHighly Efficient Laser-Ablation Propulsion System At Supersonic Speeds
Conventional rockets and aircraft exploit a combination of conservation of momentum and Newton’s third law to generate thrust via the expulsion of propellant mass from a nozzle to escape Earth’s...
View ArticleDrug Unlocks Malleable, Fast-Learning, Child-LIke State In Adult Brain
Professor Carla Shatz of Stanford University and her colleagues have discovered a way to revert an adult brain to the “plastic”, child-like state that is more able to form new connections quickly. The...
View ArticleSynthetic Platelet Super-Mimics Halt Bleeding Three Times Faster
An additive nanoparticle manufacturing process has been used to design and realize a synthetic platelet for the first time. The platelets are “super mimics”, matching the natural shape, size,...
View ArticleCombustionless Electricity Generation From Jet-Fuel With Novel Biofuel Reactions
Scientists have created the first room-temperature fuel cell that exploits the high energy density of jet fuels to generate electricity directly without the need for an internal combustion engine....
View ArticleA Genetically-Engineered Modular AND Logic Gate Curtails, Kills And Prevents...
Scientists have designed a new kind of modular, “logic circuit” therapy, by realizing a genetic AND gate that combines information from two kinds of inputs to render an active therapy. The circuit...
View ArticleHubble Finds 200 Billion Orphan Stars Adrift Between Galaxies, Torn Free Due...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, as part of its Frontier Fields project, has detected the glow of a massive collection of approximately 200 billion orphan stars ripped from their parent galaxies billions...
View ArticleScattering In Single-Layer Material Reveals New Understanding Of High...
Placing a 2D single-atom thick layer of iron selenide over a strontium-titanium-oxygen (also known as strontium-titanate, STO or SrTiO3) substrate massively increases the superconductivity temperature...
View ArticleComplex Single Molecules Successfully Manipulated On Atomic Scale By Manual...
Scientists at the German Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich) have developed a powerful new method that allow real-time, interactive manual manipulation of individual molecules. All...
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