“With a slender sheet of lab-grown bismuth and an architecture unlike anything inside today’s silicon chips, they’ve built what they call the world’s fastest and most efficient transistor. Not only does it outperform the best processors made by Intel and […]
“People who are given a vaccine for shingles have a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease, according to a study of more than a million people published in the European Heart Journal.” […]
Thankfully there’s a video, since this is hard to imagine. “We’ve shown that mechanical systems can be designed to behave in ways that seem almost paradoxical,” says Bas Overvelde, principal investigator of the Soft Robotic Matter Group.” ~ learn more
“There’s unexpected movement in the world of cell biology — specifically, with the energy factories known as mitochondria. … Over the past three decades, research has revealed that mitochondria are much more than cellular powerhouses that turn nutrients from food […]
“The paper demonstrates the significance of a material’s pore size (pockets of space within porous materials where carbon dioxide can nestle) in predicting its power to capture carbon. The engineers argue this type of research will support the development of […]
Who needs fiction when you have reality. “Female blue-lined octopuses are much larger than the males and have been known to eat their partners after copulation.” ~ learn more
“A recent study … found that nanocellulose dyed with red onion skin extract provides very effective UV protection. The nanocellulose film protected 99.9% of UV radiation up to 400 nanometers. This UV filter outperformed even the commercial PET-based UV filter, […]
“It is impossible for us to know exactly how another person’s experience of the world compares to our own, but a new experiment is helping to reveal that colour is indeed a shared phenomenon” ~ learn more
“Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks break down with age, studies in mice show.” ~ learn more
“A randomized trial found that overweight adults sleeping <6.5h/night cut 270 calories/day—just by sleeping 1.2 hours more. No diet or exercise changes.” ~ learn more