Monthly Archives: Agosto 2019
Mankai – superfood that provides glycemic control after carbohydrate consumption
Mankai, a new high-protein aquatic plant strain of duckweed, has significant potential as a superfood and provides glycemic control after carbohydrate consumption, a team...
Your task performance can be impaired by memories that are irrelevant
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know...
How can a planet be hotter than hot?
How can a planet be "hotter than hot?"
The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet's atmosphere, instead of condensing...
September 2017 – a slightly radioactive cloud moved across Europe – the silence of...
It was the most serious release of radioactive material since Fukushima 2011, but the public took little notice of it:
In September 2017, a...
Freedom songs were key in giving motivation to those fighting for equal rights
When Nina Simone belted out “Mississippi Goddam” in 1964, she gave voice to many who were fighting for equal rights during the Civil Rights...
Eating dark chocolate can help reduce anxiety and improve symptoms of clinical depression
Eating dark chocolate may positively affect mood and relieve depressive symptoms, finds a new UCL-led study looking at whether different types of chocolate are...
Israeli exo-atmospheric ballistic missile interceptor Arrow-3 successfully intercepts medium-range target missile over the Pacific...
Arrow-3 missiles successfully took out target missiles in high-altitude, hit-to-kill test engagements conducted at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak.
The tests were a joint effort between the...
DHS Alert : small aircraft vulnerability could enable attackers to easily hack the plane’s...
What is CAN bus?. A quick answer for that would be, it is the network inside a typical modern car where control commands for...
Researchers discovered several severe vulnerabilities in the newly WPA3 WiFi security standard
In total, the researchers discovered five vulnerabilities: a denial of service attack, two downgrade attacks and two side-channel information leaks.
Qualcomm looks to make Wi-Fi safer...
Dementia : A microscopy study revealed tau controls Fyn clustering in dendrites
University of Queensland researchers have used super-resolution microscopy to observe key molecules at work inside living brain cells, further unravelling the puzzle of memory...
A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease is up-to 94% accurate at predicting dementia...
Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up...
Alzheimer’s disease : A new deep learning model can accurately predict cognitive decline up...
A new model developed at MIT can help predict if patients at risk for Alzheimer’s disease will experience clinically significant cognitive decline due to...
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could treat heart failure
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could be the answer to developing a desperately-needed treatment for heart failure, according to...
New insight into navigation and spatial learning
As you enter a new environment such as visiting a classroom for the first time, your brain takes in information about your surroundings to...
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of...
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of developing dementia later on, finds a new UCL-led study.
The longitudinal...
