Category: TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE – Jan 31 2023

Perfluoroalkyls and polyfluoroalkyls, known as PFAs, are a family of more than 5,000 substances called “forever chemicals” because that’s how long they seem to last: their carbon and fluorine bonds are so strong as to seem unbreakable.

An Italian study of centenarian superagers—people 100 years old or more who remain unusually healthy—found that a large proportion of them share a mutant gene that seems to keep hearts healthy as we age.

Photosynthesis is plants’ gift to humanity: the process uses water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and liberate charged hydrogen particles to power the process by which plants store carbon.