Tag: Science

Globally, about one person in every 11 doesn’t have enough to eat and fully one-third of the world’s people are at risk of hunger, according to the United Nations.

Losing something—a game, a love, a parent, a job, money—is an experience we all have at some time. Now scientists at Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have isolated the impact that losing has on the brain and how it can change our behavior.

Science is producing a longer and longer list of candidates to replace plastics made from petroleum and natural gas. Thanks to work by scientists at Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, China, bamboo’s version has just moved up in the rankings.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have created a nearly indestructible, perfectly transparent crystalline material and etched within it the human genome to be preserved for billions of years into the future. Genomes of animals and plants might be added next.

One fecal transplant has shrunk the waistlines of obese teens, reduced their body fat and their generalized inflammation, and lowered their risk of heart disease—and the benefits were still in place after four years, according to a study of 87 adolescents published by New Zealand’s University of Auckland.

As the world searches for alternatives to lithium to power batteries, scientists at Binghamton University in New York have shown that all you need to generate electricity is sugar and vitamins—pretty much the way humans use enzymes to make energy from food.

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have created “A-Heal,” an intelligent device worn over a wound that monitors and speeds healing.

Eating mostly a high-fat, junk food diet for just four days can disrupt your ability to remember things, according to a study from the University of North Carolina.

Pain, whether temporary from an injury or chronic, is one of the hardest medical problems to treat safely. Now researchers at New York University’s Pain Research Center have found a biochemical “switch” that seems to shut off pain while doing no other harm.

In our 9 September issue, we reported on a study explaining “Why Ultra-Processed Foods Make You Fat.” (They disrupt basic body processes and hormone balances.)