Tag: Science

At Australia’s Macquarie University, researchers have found a way to poison female mosquitoes when they have sex.

Osteoporosis causes bones to weaken and turn brittle and more breakable. The condition occurs when the body loses bone mass faster than it can be replaced and becomes more likely as we age.

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans that grow in pods surrounded by pulp, which are trash. But they’re really not, according to researchers at ETH, Switzerland’s technical university.

At Canada’s University of Guelph, researchers combined oleic acid, found in olive oil, and amino acids—the components of proteins—in a solution that was 90 percent water. 

Owning a smartphone and having it near you dilutes your mental functioning, according to a study from the University of Texas at Austin.

Researchers using machine learning are developing ways to read the retina of your eyes to see what’s going on in other parts of your body.

Some plastics are hard, literally and figuratively, to recycle—for example, acrylonitrile butadiene that’s used to make computer keyboards and protective headgear.

Parkinson’s Disease has been reversed in mice by combining nanoparticles with light in surgery-free experiments.