Millipedes, those worm-like crawlies with antennae and hundreds of hair-like legs, keep ants away by secreting a substance that makes ants disoriented.
Tag: Science
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REGENERATING TISSUE WITH YOGURT
Turns out yogurt can do more than improve your digestion. Scientists at Columbia University’s engineering school wanted to make a hydrogel that included extracellular vesicles.
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COMBINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
In one of the first published examples of uniting artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, engineers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization have improved the process of modeling the electrical resistance inside a computer chip—an essential step in designing new and more sophisticated semiconductors.
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DARPA ADVANCES WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION
The idea of beaming electric power through the air has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla more than a century ago. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is taking steps toward making it happen through its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program.
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MAGIC MUSHROOMS MAY HOLD A MAGIC ANTI-AGING COMPOUND
Psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in a family of mushrooms, is the new headliner in mental health treatment.
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‘BYE, SEMAGLUTIDE, HELLO KILLER FAT SHOT
Wegovy and Ozempic are wildly popular, and hugely expensive, brand names for semaglutide, a compound that melts body weight—but at too high a cost to your body.
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EXERCISE WILL STICK IF IT MATCHES YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE, STUDY FINDS
With people in advanced nations becoming more and more sedentary, fitness experts are trying to get more of us back on our feet.
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A MEDICAL LAB IN YOUR GUT
Maybe you’re taking medication that requires you to visit a medical lab every so often to give blood or other body fluids to have various aspects of your biochemistry checked.
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RESEARCHERS DISCOVER GENETIC “DIMMER SWITCH”
Bioscientists at Duke University’s MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences were delving into the mysteries of Cdx2, a gene crucial to fetal development, including of the spinal column.
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BIOLOGICAL AGE OF BRAIN LINKED TO LONGEVITY, STUDY SAYS
A newly released study found that the biological age of a human brain plays a major role in a person’s longevity, even more so than the biological age of other organs or muscle tissue.
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