Tag: Science

From cat dander to pollen to dust mites, airborne allergens can routinely turn as much as 30 percent of the world’s population into wheezing, sneezing puddles.

A global team working with partners at Johns Hopkins University has invented a new way to make computer chips, including a new material, that processes data using light as well as electricity. 

One reason relatively few people recycle their plastics is that recycling centers want us to separate our #1 from our #5 and remember that #7 has no market and has to be thrown in the trash. Who has the time – or the commitment?

The cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has never been determined. Instead, the basket of symptoms has become a catch-all diagnosis for kids misbehaving and has millions around the world popping Adderall and Ritalin tablets like they’re M&Ms.

A worldwide study of more than 100,000 young adults has found a correlation between using a smartphone regularly as a pre-teen and mental abnormalities in later years.

A decline in overall brain function is a risk that grows with age. The loss can be particularly hard on the hippocampus, the part of the brain where learning skills and memory reside. 

At the University of Copenhagen, chemists have turned waste PET plastic into a novel material that binds to carbon in the atmosphere and holds it indefinitely, solving two major environmental problems at the same time.

Tiny pellets made from seaweed, green tea, and vitamin E trap dietary fat in the gut and escort it out of the body before it can be metabolized, according to research at China’s Sichuan University.

Sweet kelp, an edible seaweed common in meals in Japan and Korea, holds a compound that strengthens the ability of your gut’s good bacteria to keep you in trim.