It sounds like bad clickbait, but a team of British biologists has found a way to reverse the symptoms of aging in skin cells by about 30 years, according to their research published this month in the online journal eLife. De-aging is old news; over the last decade, researchers have reprogrammed human and rodent cell...
Tag: april 26 2022
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NEW LIQUID STORES SOLAR ENERGY FOR YEARS
Solar power is greener than conventional electric power and now almost as cheap. But sunshine isn’t reliable. Thanks to an innovation from Sweden’s Chalmers Institute of Technology, it doesn’t need to be. The researchers have created a novel molecule of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. When sunlight hits the molecule, it rearranges its atoms in a...
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CHIP AUTOMATES CREATION OF NEW CELLS
Imagine your hand has been crushed in an accident. The blood vessels are damaged. Not enough blood is getting to your fingers. You could lose them. To save your hand, scientists can take cells from your body—skin cells, for example—and “devolve” them back into stem cells, the embryonic “blank slates” that then can be biochemically...
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TOP 2022 UNIONIZATION TREND UPDATE
At the end of November 2021 we issued our Top Trends for 2022. One of them was “LABOR UNION COMEBACK.” As forecast, it has come back. In October 2021, Trends Journal asked, “Where have all the workers gone?”; see “SPOTLIGHT: WORKERS ON DEMAND,” which told of a labor market already at historically low levels and...
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CEO PAY INCREASED 31 PERCENT AS REAL WAGES DECLINE FOR WORKERS OF SLAVELANDIA
While real average hourly earnings for the plantation workers of Slavelandia fell 1.7 percent from January 2021 to January 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, CEOs at the largest 100 companies in the U.S. saw their pay increase an average of 31 percent in 2021, according to a newly released study. “A lot...
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SEN. COONS: SEND U.S. TROOPS TO FIGHT UKRAINE WAR
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., hinted last Sunday that the U.S. should consider deploying troops to Ukraine to beat back the Russian invasion and stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from achieving his objectives. “The American people cannot turn away from this tragedy in Ukraine,” he told CBS News. “I think the history of the 21st century turns...
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RUSSIA MAY EXPAND GOALS IN UKRAINE BEYOND DONBAS
A top Russian military officer on Friday hinted that the Kremlin’s goal in Ukraine is more ambitious than previously believed and now includes the takeover of the entire Donbas region and the country’s south. Rustam Minnekayev, the acting commander of Russia’s central military district, told Interfax that the second phase of the war will include “establishing total...
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RUSSIA WARNS FINLAND AND SWEDEN: DON’T JOIN NATO
Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and chairman of Russia’s Security Council, warned Finland and Sweden against joining NATO and said Moscow would have to beef up its military presence in the region if they joined the alliance. “In this case, it will no longer be possible to talk about any non-nuclear status of the...
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UK & NEW ZEALAND KEEP UKRAINE WAR GOING BY SENDING MORE WEAPONS OF DEATH
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said during a trip to India last week that the UK could send tanks to Poland if Warsaw decides to send tanks into Ukraine. “We are looking more at what we can do to backfill in...
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SERBIA REFUSES TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, GREECE SAYS NO MORE WEAPONS
Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian president, spoke out last week in opposition to joining the West’s sanctions against Russia due to his country’s reliance on Moscow for energy demands and security assurances. “We have a sort of protection [from Russia],” Vucic said, according to the Financial Times. “What do [western countries] want? Leave all our national interests because...
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