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c_howdy started the topic In a first, scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity in the forum General 6 years, 4 months ago
OCTOBER 16, 2019
by Harvard Medical School
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-scientists-neural-role-human-longevity.html
The brain’s neural activity—long implicated in disorders ranging from dementia to epilepsy—also plays a role in human aging and life span, according to research led by scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Med…[Read more]
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c_howdy started the topic Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death in the forum General 6 years, 4 months ago
OCTOBER 17, 2019
by Stony Brook University
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-reveals-collapse-protein-driver-aging.html
Cells undergo natural aging and death, processes that impact a multitude of cellular factors. A new Stony Brook University-led study, to be published in PNAS, provides a biophysical model that reveals how damage accumulates in…[Read more]
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c_howdy started the topic Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing' (article) in the forum Practice 6 years, 4 months ago
By Philippa Roxby
Health reporter, BBC News
12 October 2019
How fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested.
Using a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process.
Not only were slower walkers’ bodies ageing more quickly -…[Read more]
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c_howdy started the topic A reliable clock for your microbiome (article) in the forum General 6 years, 4 months ago
by Harvard University
OCTOBER 11, 2019
For all the attention the human microbiome has been getting over the last few years, one aspect of such research rarely makes headlines: the difficulty of observing how it changes over time in response to various stimuli. The most common analysis method is extracting bacteria from fecal samples and then…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Mr Methane – Britain's Got Talent – Show 5 (ytvideo) in the forum Practice 6 years, 4 months ago
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c_howdy replied to the topic Mr Methane – Britain's Got Talent – Show 5 (ytvideo) in the forum Practice 6 years, 4 months ago
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar
Of some obscure Scottish poet-MARILLION Bitter Suite
…funnel-web has a body length ranging from 1 to 5 cm (0.4 to 2 in). Both sexes are glossy and darkly…[Read more]
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c_howdy started the topic New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
OCTOBER 9, 2019
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-method-visualizes-groups-neurons.html
Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, MIT and Boston University researchers have shown that they can image the activity of many neurons at once, in the brains of…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic FT calls for a ‘reset’ of capitalism in biggest brand push since 2008 crash in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
Top Dutch athlete arrested in Germany on drugs charges
July 25, 2019
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/07/top-dutch-athlete-arrested-in-germany-on-drugs-charges/
A Dutch Olympic athlete has been arrested in Germany with 50 kilos of crystal meth and ecstasy, broadcaster NOS said on Thursday. The athlete is thought to be Madiea Ghafoor, the…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Human echolocation (video etc.) in the forum Practice 6 years, 5 months ago
How I broke a wine glass with my VOICE (6:55(57)…)
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c_howdy replied to the topic Mr Methane – Britain's Got Talent – Show 5 (ytvideo) in the forum Practice 6 years, 5 months ago
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c_howdy replied to the topic Japanese police arrest 74-year-old ninja thief suspect in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
Did ancient priests fool visitors to a sulfurous subterranean stream that they had crossed the River Styx and entered Hades?
By Mike Dash
October 1, 2012
-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-tunnels-at-baiae-56267963/-
…if you just think Ninja are cool and just want…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Japanese police arrest 74-year-old ninja thief suspect in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
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c_howdy replied to the topic Physicist suggests 'quantum foam' may explain away huge cosmic energy in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
…conventional theory suggests that spacetime should be filled with a huge amount of energy—perhaps as much as 10120 more than seemingly exists…
…modern physics failed to calculate the actual value of Dark energy. This is considered to be the biggest failure of modern physics. Quantum physics could calculate only a very small value but m…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Physicist suggests 'quantum foam' may explain away huge cosmic energy in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Quantum vacuum: Less than zero energy
by Vienna University of Technology
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-quantum-vacuum-energy.html
Energy is a quantity that must always be positive—at least that’s what our intuition tells us. If every single particle is removed from a certain volume until there is nothing left that could po…[Read more]
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c_howdy started the topic Physicist suggests 'quantum foam' may explain away huge cosmic energy in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-physicist-quantum-foam-huge-cosmic.html
Steven Carlip, a physicist at the University of California, has come up with a theory to explain why empty space seems to be filled with a huge amount of energy—it may be hidden by effects that are canceling it out at the Planck scale. He has p…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Human echolocation (video etc.) in the forum Practice 6 years, 5 months ago
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Leg amputees feel and use nerve-stimulating leg prosthesis as a real limb
by ETH Zurichhttps://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-leg-amputees-nerve-stimulating-prosthesis-real.html
A European consortium led by ETH Zurich and SensArs Neuroprosthetics reports that tiny electrodes implanted in a patients’ thigh nerve allow them to…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Japanese police arrest 74-year-old ninja thief suspect in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
Japan’s ninjas heading for extinction
By Mariko Oi
BBC News, Japan
23 November 2012https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20135674
Japan’s era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic video – Returning Your Eyes to the Natural State in the forum Practice 6 years, 5 months ago
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Researchers reveal molecular basis of vision
by Cornell University
Researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex involved in vertebrate vision at atomic resolution, a finding that has broad implications for our understanding of biological signaling processes and the design of over a third of…[Read more]
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c_howdy replied to the topic Commodore's Messenger Book Series in the forum General 6 years, 5 months ago
Mariette Lindstein: My years of hell trapped in the grip of Scientologists
…the teachings were simple, almost boring things – sitting and looking at each other, methods to make you study…
Mariette Lindstein, free after a quarter-century, uses her experiences to create a vivid crime novel, says JON COATES
By JON COATES
PUBLISHED: 13:55,…[Read more]
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