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Novel antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again
Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15...
City upbringing, without pets, boosts vulnerability to mental illness
Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at...
Ample warning of supervolcano eruptions likely, experts say
Concern over the potential imminent eruptions of Earth's supervolcanoes, like Taupo in New Zealand or Yellowstone in the United States, may be quelled by...
EEG signals accurately predict autism as early as 3 months of age
Autism is challenging to diagnose, especially early in life. A new study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that inexpensive EEGs, which measure brain...
Why parts of Earth have barely changed in 3 billion years
There is a mystery in Earth's ancient past, and the clues lie in the desert rocks of Australia and other ancient places.
The last century...
Metal-free metamaterial can be swiftly tuned to create changing electromagnetic effects
Researchers at Duke University have built the first metal-free, dynamically tunable metamaterial for controlling electromagnetic waves. The approach could form the basis for technologies...
Valleytronics discovery could extend limits of Moore’s Law
Research appearing today in Nature Communications finds useful new information-handling potential in samples of tin(II) sulfide (SnS), a candidate "valleytronics" transistor material that might...
Daily emissions from personal care products comparable to car emissions: study
When people are out and about, they leave plumes of chemicals behind them—from both car tailpipes and the products they put on their skin...
Brown widow male spiders prefer sex with older females likely to eat them afterwards
Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older, less-fertile females that are 50 percent more likely to eat them after sex, according to...
Earth’s magnetic field is not about to reverse, study finds
A study of the most recent near-reversals of the Earth's magnetic field by an international team of researchers, including the University of Liverpool, has...
Calcium-based MRI sensor enables more sensitive brain imaging
MIT neuroscientists have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensor that allows them to monitor neural activity deep within the brain by tracking...
