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Genetic response to starvation is passed down to at least three generations
In 1944, the Nazis caused widespread famine in Western Netherlands after they blocked food supplies. A group of pregnant women living in the Netherlands, labouring under starvation conditions imposed by...
Fat grizzlies stay diabetes free thanks to protein shut down
The shutdown of a key protein allows grizzly bears to go through tremendous weight gains without loosing insulin sensitivity. Thus they're never at risk of getting diabetes. What if we...
Energy and sports drinks advertised as healthy are nothing but otherwise
Many popular sports and energy drinks on the market are just as sugary as sodas, finds a new UC Berkeley report. (iStockphoto) Disguised under a 'health...
Sharks may confuse kitesurfers with birds and attack them
A new study investigated the circumstances under which a 15-year-old kitesurfing male died after a tiger shark attacked him in the South Pacific. Their analysis suggests that attack took place...
Used cigarette buds could provide energy storage sollution
Scientists have found a way to transform cigarette buds into a material which stores energy cheap and efficiently. The material outperforms both commercial and prototypical materials made from graphene and...
Scientists turn a brown butterfly purple – in just six generations
Scientists have managed to make the coloring of a butterfly species evolve from brown to purple in just six generations. This study shows that even complex coloring mechanisms can undergo...
New lithium ion battery cathod can withstand 25,000 cycles. Your laptop battery only has 300
Using approximate computational methods, researchers at the SHARP Corporation and Kyoto Universities have identified a new battery material that can retain charge even after a massive amount of charge and...
Measuring particle momentum without breaking the uncertainty principle
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes quantum physics nasty. There's no reason why we can't get all along, though. A novel technique explores how it may be possible to know both position...
Spray-coated solar cells bring solar power to every corner
Researchers at University of Sheffield demonstrate a perovskite spray-on solar cell for the first time. Also, this is the first time rated efficiency for a spray-on solar cell tops two...
NASA confirms “Impossible” propellant-free microwave thruster works
Designs for a device called a "microwave thruster" were proposed in 2006. While the device was physically sound and followed the principles of relativity, it has been dismissed by researchers who...
New Wi-Fi has a range of 100 km (62 miles)
I remember when once upon a time, wi-fi could barely reach from one room to the other. It wasn't even regarded as a serious technology by some back then -...
Computer games sometimes better than medication in treating elderly depression
Computer games could be the key to treating elderly people who have been diagnosed with depression, but who aren't responding to conventional treatment. A new study has shown that playing a...
An aspirin a day could dramatically reduce cancer risk, huge study concludes
The new study concludes that an aspirin a day for middle-aged people could save 130,000 lives over 20 years in Britain alone, by reducing cancer risk. Aspirin was most effective in...
ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, ready to begin its science mission
Gaia is an unmanned space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) which aims to catalog approximately 1 billion astronomical objects (mostly stars), about 1% of the Milky Way population....
New material allows ultra-thin, transparent solar cells
Austrlian researchers have successfully developed transparent, ultra-thin, foldable solar cells.
Aboriginals boost kangaroo populations when hunting with fire
While they hunt kangaroos, aborigines in remote areas of Australia help boost marsupial populations by lighting bush fires. Image: acanberraboy.blogspot.com The Aboriginal Martu people have been hunting...
Mathematical equation predicts happiness
Scientists successfully predicted human happiness using a mathematical equation - you too can use the smartphone app they developed and be a part of the experiment.
There’s more to excellence than just practice, study finds
Practice isn't all you need to become successful. Photo: muscleprodigy.com The old adage goes 'practice makes perfect', and while we all know there is truth in...
Sobering Aerial footage of the Mount Polley environmental disaster
The Cariboo Regional District has released troubling video of what can already be called a full-scale environmental disaster following the release of five million cubic meters of effluent from a...
Active learning greatly outperforms passive lecturing in classrooms
Most University professors still rely on passive lectures to get their subject across. A meta-study which analyzed 225 studies found that active teaching - lectures that actively engage students and...
