This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so by clicking here. A new analysis of the cause of depression has seemingly turned everything we know about this common condition on its head and called the use of …
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A new carbon capture technique called supercapacitive swing adsorption separates carbon dioxide from gas mixtures in air and industrial flue gases. Irving Langmuir conducted his 1932 Nobel Prize-winning work on surface chemistry at General Electric’s research laboratories in Schenectady, New York. In his 1917 adsorption theory, he postulated that “surfaces resemble a chessboard, on which …
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Washington [US]August 12 (ANI): The results of the master’s research by Matheus Henrique Ferreira, currently a doctoral student at the Institute of Psychology (IP-USP) at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, suggest that smells affect our ability to see emotions and to be interpreted by other people, even if we are not aware of …
Rishi Sunak (left) and Liz Truss have different economic policies that could impact UK research.Credit: Jack Hill/AFP via Getty, Christopher Furlong/Getty The race to decide who will be the new leader of the British Conservative Party and the country’s next Prime Minister has less than a month to go. The two candidates are former Chancellor …
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Washington [US]Aug 12 (ANI): Neuroscientists have documented a connection between spatial and verbal reasoning by scanning the brains of students while taking a class that emphasized spatial learning. “Psychologists and philosophers have long debated whether spatial reasoning, like mental images of objects, actually lurks beneath verbal reasoning,” explains Adam Green, the study’s senior author and …
By SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS GARRIGA – Associated Press LUX, France (AP) – A river once flowed through it. Now white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide ditch that winds between rows of trees in the former River Tille in the village of Lux in France’s Burgundy region. From dried up and …
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By SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS GARRIGA – Associated Press LUX, France (AP) – A river once flowed through it. Now white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide ditch winding between rows of trees in the former River Tille in the village of Lux in France’s Burgundy region. From dried up and cracked …
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The star Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant ruby red sparkling patch of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. But seen up close, astronomers recognize it as a seething monster with a 400-day heartbeat of regular pulsations. This aging star is classified as a supergiant because it has swollen …
Only milliseconds after the Big Bang of the universe, chaos reigned. Atomic nuclei fused and broke apart in hot, frenzied motion. Incredibly strong pressure waves built up, squeezing matter so tightly that black holes formed, which astrophysicists call primordial black holes. Did primordial black holes aid or hinder the formation of the Universe’s first stars, …
None of us knows how long we will live. There’s no escaping the inevitability of an aging body—the wrinkles, the creaky joints, and so on. But there are ways to prevent aging faster than our chronological age, reports The Sun. Nobody wants to look emaciated “before their time”. But in fact much of the aging …