Exploration Shorts

15/08/2022

A study by the US Preventive Services Task Force Daily has found that consuming multivitamins does not promote important health benefits.

As per the results of this study, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it is better for most people to just drink water instead of swallowing multivitamin pills with it.

The study was based on the analysis of 84 research reports on more than 700,000 people and found no grounds that vitamin and mineral supplements help to prevent fatal ailments like heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. These supplements do not help prevent premature death either.

30/05/2022

Smaller than a flea, robot can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump. Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk...

01/09/2021

Scholarships to Study in Germany

https://lnkd.in/g9re3qVN

Go Overseas & DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, are offering resources on scholarships to study abroad in Germany at the undergraduate and graduate level. There are research grants, undergraduates scholarships, and research internships in science & engineering.

31/08/2021

Job opportunity

2021 International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program（Talent-Introduction Program）Starts Receiving Applications

https://hr.zju.edu.cn/postdoctor/2021/0120/c29116a2246138/page.htm

各学院（系），各位博士后：2021年博士后国际交流计划（引进项目）已经开始申报。我们起草了一版英文通知，供参考。ApostdoctoralpositionisimmediatelyavailableatZhejiangUniversitywithannualsalaryof300,000RMB.WelcometoZhejiangUniversity.I.ProjectIntroductio...

31/07/2021

29/06/2021

More than 179 million Americans and more than 44 million Britons have received their first dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine.

28/06/2021

This week in science is back!

Earth's pulse https://bit.ly/3A791gU
Life detected from high up https://bit.ly/3x0v6vS
A new ancient human https://bit.ly/3vY20vD
Reef in danger https://bit.ly/3w0nKqP
Camels' thirst powers https://bit.ly/3jkl98h
Gray hairs https://bit.ly/3w1HNFa

31/03/2021

Stochastic multicolor labeling is a powerful tool for discriminating between neurons. Learn about how a new system named Tetbow (Tetracycline transactivator Brainbow) can bring brighter multicolor labeling to neuronal tracing experiments.

13/01/2021

29/12/2020

29/12/2020

It's a common dieter's lament: "Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I'm never going to lose any weight."

25/12/2020

When navigating a space, it turns out human brains form eerily similar spatial-awareness brain waves. Scientists have discovered this after devising a method to scan our brains during free movements, as opposed to lying still in a scanner.

20/12/2020

20/12/2020

Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking

20/12/2020

On 21 December 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night's sky and for a brief moment, they will appear to shine together as one body. While planetary conjunctions like this are not everyday events, they also are not particularly rare.

17/12/2020

A big milestone in deep space exploration!

The Chang’e-5 spacecraft collected the youngest pieces of the moon ever returned to Earth, helping scientists piece together mysteries of lunar history.

16/12/2020

East African artifact may be first known treasure recovered from the “fantasy land” of Punt

11/12/2020

The amount of concrete, asphalt, metal, and plastic on Earth is growing fast. This year may mark the point when artificial stuff outweighs living things.

09/12/2020

Photons explore quantum maze faster than possible for any classical computer.

06/12/2020

We're not wired to feel safe all the time, but maybe one day we could be.

06/12/2020

Gut microbiome disturbances have been implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD). However, little is known about how the gut virome, microbiome, and f***l metabolome change, and how they interact in MDD. Here, using whole-genome shotgun metagenomic and untargeted metabolomic methods, we identifie...

06/12/2020

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Aging

03/12/2020

This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded, the United Nations said Wednesday, as the UN chief warned the world was on the brink of "climate catastrophe".

31/10/2020

Wait. What?

There are many unanswered questions about our place in the Universe. Why are we here? What is the likelihood of our existence? Could there be others like us out there in the galaxy?

31/10/2020

Nothing is useless in this world.

Scientists have examined the relationship between forest fungi and mature trees in greater detail than ever before.

31/10/2020

So there's hope as far as the world is going.

The plant compound apigenin improved the cognitive and memory deficits usually seen in a mouse model of Down syndrome, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

31/10/2020

Interesting!

Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to learn how to read, a new study suggests.

31/10/2020

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a parasitic fungus infects ants and other insects in order to reproduce.

29/10/2020

That's incredible!

A little over five years ago, humanity was yet to detect gravitational waves.

29/10/2020

29/10/2020

Stay away from stress.

29/10/2020

Woah!

A meteorite that landed on a frozen lake in 2018 contains thousands of organic compounds that formed billions of years ago and could hold clues about the origins of life on Earth.

29/10/2020

Good strategy!

A new study suggests that COVID-19 affects the human body’s blood concentration levels of specific metabolites. Three metabolites identified in the study could act as biomarkers and hold potential to be measured through an inexpensive blood test to quickly screen patients for the disease.

29/10/2020

Exercise might prevent some types of cancer from growing and spreading, and while scientists still aren't sure why that is, new research on mice offers a potential explanation.

28/10/2020

28/10/2020

For a select group of coronavirus patients known as "long-haulers", the onset of symptoms is the beginning of an extended battle. Many COVID-19 patients develop weeks- or months-long illnesses that researchers now call "long-COVID".

28/10/2020

Refrain from sweet drinks and take better care of your heart

A recent study has found that sugary drinks and artificially sweetened beverages are associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, which suggests artificially sweetened beverages may not be the healthy alternative they are often claimed to be.

28/10/2020

Water discovered on moon by NASA's SOFIA.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon/

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.

27/10/2020

"Our study found a reduction in anxiety and a trend toward a reduction in depression."