Tag: Science

An Italian study of centenarian superagers—people 100 years old or more who remain unusually healthy—found that a large proportion of them share a mutant gene that seems to keep hearts healthy as we age.

Photosynthesis is plants’ gift to humanity: the process uses water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and liberate charged hydrogen particles to power the process by which plants store carbon.

Using new state-of-the-art techniques in brain imaging and neuromolecular biology, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered a previously unidentified component of the human brain that may be key to its health.

BVG, the private firm that manages most of the public transportation systems in Germany’s largest city, has come up with a new way to cut both traffic jams and smog: an app called Jelbi that gives the 3.7 million Berliners access to the city’s buses, subways, trolleys, as well as shared bikes, cars, and even scooters. 

We tend to fit our meals around activities: breakfast, if you eat one, at maybe 7 in the morning before work, meal breaks at noon, then after work you do a little shopping, get home, change clothes, tend to a few chores, cook up something, and sit down to dinner at 6 or 7.

A new trial has again proven stem cells’ power to dramatically alter human health.

Water, water everywhere: 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water but humans can’t drink it or water their crops with ocean brine.