Scientists Have Made a Stunning Discovery About Blood Red Waterfalls in Antarctica

2023-06-28 10:27:01 You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] In Antarctica, the flow of the Trooz glacier is accelerating A team of scientists from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) and the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) has… They spring from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. Waterfalls with the color red color which earned them the … Read more

Understanding your Blood Test Results: A Comprehensive Guide

2023-06-10 07:27:59 Persistent fatigue, pallor, recurrent fever? A blood test has been prescribed by your doctor. So you went to a biological analysis laboratory. You would now like to understand the main points of your blood test so that you can discuss it with your doctor later. Let’s see together what the main indicators mean. … Read more

“Loophole-Free Bell Experiment Using Superconducting Qubit” – Nature Highlight in May 2023

2023-05-11 01:10:14 Nature highlight May 11, 2023 Nature 6177960 The Bell inequality has helped shed light on the structure of correlations allowed by quantum mechanics and what this theory of physics says about the world. Experimental verification of the Bell inequality is also of practical importance, as it allows confirmation of the existence of true … Read more

Scientists have discovered why hair turns gray

2023-04-20 15:27:27 The change in color of our hair linked to aging results from a depletion of the resources of cells responsible for pigmentation. Researchers specify the mechanism involving melanin-producing stem cells. You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Stress accelerates the appearance of white hair Also called Marie-Antoinette syndrome, the appearance of white hair … Read more

Neurons report infection to the brain

Tired, no appetite, simply sick: whether we have the flu or a nasty rhinovirus, all infections actually have some general symptoms in common. This stereotypical “being sick” is not caused by the infection – rather, the brain actively creates this condition itself when it learns that a virus is up to mischief. As now reported … Read more

‘Brown fat’ may delay aging

REPROGRAMMING AND REGENERATION What if you could turn a person’s white fat into brown fat, through what’s called ‘induced tissue regeneration’ – using reprogramming to turn a type of cell into stem cells pluripotent? What if we could activate specific genes to make these cells function like brown adipose tissue cells? What if these new … Read more

Book Review: »The Revenge of the Pangolin«

The book by evolutionary biologist Matthias Glaubrecht, which is well worth reading, describes the biological basis of pandemics, the search for the origin of the virus that triggered the current corona pandemic, and the spread of epidemics that have repeatedly afflicted mankind since 430 BC. The somewhat unusual title alludes to the headline of a … Read more

Orca mothers take care of their sons for life – knowledge

Having children is demanding. For female orcas, however, raising sons is particularly exhausting. At least that’s what a study in the journal says Current Biology vicinity, for which data from 40 female orcas of the so-called southern resident population in the northeast Pacific were analyzed. According to this, orca sons place such extreme demands on … Read more