In a completely new approach, scientists reduced a hallmark of the disease in mice by stimulating their neurons with flickering lights.

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Submitted on December 9th 2016 by gladsdotter

An end to grey hair and crows-feet could be just 10 years away after scientists showed it is possible to reverse ageing in animals.

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by Splitfish with 2 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. Scientific article: In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks by Partial Reprogramming Added by Muffintop on December 16th 2016.

Two new books on astrobiology convince Tom Holland that non-specialists are the only sane people on the subject.

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Submitted on December 10th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Whales have a history that is among the strangest and least-understood of any animal—and barnacles might be the key to unlocking their secrets. By Peter Brannen.

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by AdelleChattre

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus.

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by gladsdotter

Imagine, for a second, a duck teaching a French class. A ping-pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin balancing a pineapple. You probably haven’t actually seen any of these things. But you could imagine them instantly. How does your brain produce an image of something you’ve never seen? Andrey Vyshedskiy details the neuroscience of imagination.

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Submitted on December 13th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Is man-flu a quirk of viral evolution? Some viruses might cause weaker symptoms in women than in men because it makes them more likely to spread. Many infections cause more severe illness in men than women. Men infected with tuberculosis are 1.5 times more likely to die than women; men infected with human papillomavirus are five times more likely to develop cancer than women; and men infected with Epstein-Barr virus are at least twice as likely to develop Hodgkin’s lymphoma as women.

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Submitted on December 13th 2016 by wildcard

Half of people with Parkinson’s disease experience hallucinations, paranoia and delusions. Mary O’Hara reports on a new hope.

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Submitted on December 12th 2016 by gladsdotter

A NEXT-GENERATION jet could take passengers from London to New York in just 20 minutes, according to its creator Canadian designer Charles Bombardier.

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Submitted on December 9th 2016 by Appaloosa

It’s several hundred years into the future. You live in a cold climate, but thick clothing keeps you warm. You eat food from the community greenhouse. Sometimes you even go boating, spending tranquil days under the orange sky. Life is similar in some ways to how it is now. In other ways, it’s very different. For one thing, you can fly. Also — your body is now permanently incapable of adapting to Earth’s atmosphere, and you can never return.

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Submitted on December 12th 2016 by funhonestdude with 1 comments

Scientists in Japan have engineered a refrigerator powered by sound waves. The technology isn't new, but the research team's version of the thermoacoustic engine offers two important advantages over its predecessors. The new and improved multistage traveling wave thermoacoustic engine operates at a lower temperature. It is also smaller and more adaptable.

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Submitted on December 14th 2016 by ppp

How the 21st Century Cures Act is set to shape patients’ access to cellular therapies, for better and for worse. By Megan Molteni. (Dec. 6, 2016)

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Submitted on December 14th 2016 by AdelleChattre

The car of the future will be electric, connected and, eventually, self-driving. But where does that leave the car industry of the future? In a series of articles this month, Heard on the Street takes a look at how investors should approach the biggest technological disruption the car industry has faced in decades.

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Submitted on December 13th 2016 by Nelson

The world’s oldest water, which is locked deep within the Earth’s crust, just got even older. The liquid was discovered deep down in a mine in Canada in 2013 and is about 1.5 billion years old. But now, at the same site, University of Toronto scientists have found a deeper source of water that is at least 500 million years more ancient. The work was presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by grandtheftsoul

NASA's CYGNSS mission, an initiative to send eight small satellites into space on a Pegasus XL rocket, is slated for another takeoff this morning. The launch was originally set for Monday but was...

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by Improbability

South African physician Tim Noakes, one of the world’s greatest sports scientists, has been preaching an ultra-low-carb, high-fat diet as the key to fitness and health. His ideas have made him a bestselling guru, but now his critics are pushing back—and as Bill Gifford reports, they’re putting his theories on trial.

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Submitted on December 15th 2016 by gladsdotter

Robots, for all their helpfulness in performing tasks that we would rather not do (usually because those tasks are dangerous or boring), first need to be coded in order to do the work. These specific sets of commands tell the machines what exactly they need to do and define how to do it. While robots can be coded to acquire knowledge for themselves through machine learning, it would take far too long for a single robot to acquire enough experience to actually be helpful with many complex real-world tasks. To address this, several studies have explored...

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Submitted on December 10th 2016 by Apolatia

From Early Climate Change Researcher to Epic Climate Denier.

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Submitted on December 14th 2016 by AdelleChattre

How a Frenchman, an Englishman, a French bulldog named Henri, and an English bulldog named Henry overcame their differences to conquer the skies.

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Submitted on December 9th 2016 by gladsdotter

It really can hurt your health... Some people—even those who are strong and healthy—are totally convinced that disease is just around the corner. An estimated 5-10% of people have health anxiety, meaning they’re obsessed with thoughts of having, getting or dodging illness. Now, a new study published in the journal BMJ Open shows that this type of worry, ironically, is linked to a 70% higher risk of heart disease.

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Submitted on December 12th 2016 by geoleo