If you don’t use Chrome and you feel YouTube loads slower than it used to or should, you’re not crazy. Your internet connection (probably) isn’t the problem. And neither is your browser. Instead, the culprit is YouTube itself. Last year, Google rolled out a brand-new design for YouTube. This redesign not […]
Daily Archives: July 26, 2018
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Monica Owusu-Breen, showrunner of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, has taken Twitter to reassure fans after some backlash.
Grandmother Norma Bigi, 84, the latest victim of the illness, died after tests revealed the bacteria came from water from a fountain in Bresso, a town near Milan. Those taken ill from the disease found themselves suffering its classic symptoms in the past 12-13 days and have all been admitted […]
Most people feel bloated at some point in their lifetime, according to the NHS. The condition may be caused by eating too much food in one go, or even by swallowing too much air. Feeling bloated can make the stomach feel swollen, puffy, and uncomfortable. Eating sugar-free foods may be […]
Ethan Hunt just doesn’t know when to stop. Cruise’s indestructible hero is back for his sixth outing which promises to be his most explosive (and leg-breaking) ever. But is it worth sitting all the way to the end of the credits? Is there a hidden end credit treat? Is it […]
Researchers have identified a molecule that serves as natural protection against one of the most common intestinal pathogens, Salmonella.
Mice fed a fattening diet develop new liver circadian rhythms that impact the way fat is accumulated and simultaneously burned. The team found that as liver fat production increases, surprisingly, so does the body’s ability to burn fat. These opposing physiological processes reach their peak activity each day around 5 […]
reporting in Current Biology on July 26 have completed the first systematic analysis of marine wilderness around the world. And what they found is not encouraging; only a small fraction — about 13 percent — of the world’s ocean can still be classified as wilderness.
The conversion of forests to farmland is recognized as a major contributor to rising levels of greenhouse gases. And yet it hasn’t been clear how to best minimize the loss of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere. Researchers now say that, based on their extensive studies of agricultural operations on three […]
Researchers have developed new techniques to track the mobilization of jumping genes. They found that during a particular period of egg development, a group of jumping-genes called retrotransposons hijacks special cells called nurse cells that nurture the developing eggs. These jumping genes use nurse cells to produce invasive material (copies […]
When it comes to memory, it’s more than just ‘location, location, location.’ New research suggests that the brain doesn’t store all memories in ‘place cells,’ the main type of neuron in the hippocampus, a structure crucial for navigation and memory. Instead, memories seem to be powered by a subset of […]
Despite enthusiasm for spraying probiotics on crops to ensure healthy microbiomes, little is known about what a healthy above-ground biome, or phyllosphere, looks like. Recent experiments show that both natural microbiomes and synthetic biomes constructed from normal populations are protective against pathogens, though sometimes low doses work better than high […]
A new study in ants identifies a peptide that plays an important role in regulating reproduction. This research illuminates a potential trajectory for the evolution of distinct social castes — workers and queens.
To understand how neuronal circuits emerge during development, researchers investigated what enables neuronal stem cells to generate successive subtypes of neurons as the embryo grows. By measuring the electrical activity, they found that membrane voltage values increase as the embryo develops and new neurons are being created. To test the […]
Scientists showed that ‘mossy cells’ in the hippocampus regulate local stem cells to control their production of new neurons, which is important for normal learning and memory, stress response, and mood regulation. Such neurogenesis in the adult brain is disrupted in many common conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, […]
Night-time lighting from streetlights and other sources has complex and unexpected effects on communities of plants and animals, new research shows.
Researchers delayed signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in rodents by injecting them with a second-generation drug designed to silence the gene, superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). The results suggest the newer version of the drug may be effective at treating an inherited form of the disease caused by mutations in […]
A recent study has revealed that fish parents ‘predict’ a beneficial environment for their offspring with populations ‘adjusting’ spawning time so that the young can meet their prey.
Researchers developed a technique for coating Zinc related oxide (ZnOx, ZnOHx) simply by depositing the films in a solution process using the Metal Organic Decomposition method at ambient temperature and pressure without heating. They also demonstrated that their thin films produced by this technique were useful as buffer layers for […]
