Two naturally occurring substances have been shown in studies to retard, and perhaps reverse, aging in test animals.
Tag: Science
Post
ARTIFICIAL MOLECULES ACT LIKE REAL ORGANIC ONES
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at the Netherlands’ Radboud University has created a process to make synthetic molecules that behave just like real organic ones.
Post
PAVEMENT THAT SCRUBS VEHICLE EXHAUST
Road engineers at South Korea’s Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology have found a way to take some vehicle exhaust out of the air until we’re all driving electric cars.
Post
WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT LAB-GROWN MEAT
While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO seed development
Post
AI FINDS A DRUG TO KILL A DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIUM
One of every 31 Americans who enters a hospital will pick up an infection while there. That comes to about 1.7 million infections each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Post
NEW MOLECULE REGENERATES NERVES, HEART TISSUE AFTER INJURY
Re-establishing nerve pathways after damage is one of medicine’s toughest problems. A related one is dealing with dead heart tissue that clings to the heart after a heart attack and can cause other cardiac problems even years later.
Post
COAL’S NEW ROLE IN A GREEN ENERGY ECONOMY: A HYDROGEN ‘BATTERY’
Among green energy advocates, coal is reviled as the dirtiest and smoggiest of fuels.
Post
PULLING ELECTRICITY OUT OF THIN (OR THICK) AIR
Using a special strain of bacteria, a research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created nanowires that can make an electric charge by pulling humidity—even tiny amounts—from air.
Post
RECOVERING MINERALS THROUGH PHYTOMINING
Forward-thinking researchers are foreseeing a time when future generations of humanity are running short of minerals because their ancestors have used them up.
Post
PARALYZED MAN WALKS WITH ELECTRONIC BRAIN-SPINE BRIDGE
Gert-Jan Oskam, a Dutch man whose spinal cord was damaged in a bicycle accident, is able to walk again, thanks to an electronic “bridge” that transmits signals from his brain to the spinal column below the injury.