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Generating Electricity from Snowfall

A device that can work in remote areas, generates power, predicts weather station, rate, and direction of the snow and wind.

Researchers Restored Silenced Cancer Genes to Fight a Broad Range of Cancers

Findings could lead to a new strategy to fight a broad range of cancers After a due study of human colon cancer cells and mice, John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers and experts confirm that they have successfully blocked the activity of portions of a protein referred to as UHRF1 and restored the function of hundreds of cancer-fighting genes that became misregulated by the disease.

Diabetes in Children Connected to Maternal Gestational Diabetes, Study Says

Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus is a risk indicator of diabetes in children and youth In recent research, "Gestational diabetes associated with incident diabetes in childhood and youth: a retrospective cohort study" published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), it was discovered by researchers that children and youth of mothers with gestational diabetes during pregnancy are at risk of diabetes themselves.

How to Train Brain to Strengthen Communication

People can now have access to their brain activity in real time and gain control over it The main discovery of a new study conducted at D'Or Institute of Research and Education (IDOR) indicated that brain training with neurofeedback in less than one hour leads to the strengthening of neural connections and communication among brain areas.

Recently Known Ways Insects and Bacteria Control Ice

Major proteins formed in bacteria and insects can either inhibit or promote the formation of ice Against the popular belief or what people might have been taught, water doesn't freeze to the ice at 32 degrees F (zero degrees C).

New App Forecasts Developing Hernia Risk after Abdominal Surgery

App uses data to tackle issues affecting patient following surgery Following abdominal surgery, a new app can predict the chances of a patient developing an incisional hernia, utilizing big data to potentially help deal with a problem that can affect one out of every eight of these surgical patients.

Brains Use Short Rest Periods to Strength Memories

Rest plays a significant role in learning The National Institutes of Health researchers, in a healthy volunteers' study, discovered that our brains might solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest.

Partner Up if You Want to Stop Smoking

It works best in pair to kick the habit A study presented at EuroPrevent 2019, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology, has a central message in it, which is kicking the habit works best in pair.

Ice Wedge Gives Insight into Historic Gaps of Climate Science

Open water existed in this area during the summers Scientists are getting significant help from the evidence of exciting marine life in Alaskan permafrost to reconstruct ancient changes in the ice cover over the Arctic Ocean.

How the Giant Sea Spiders Get Around the Laws of Physics

Giant sea spiders deal with warm temperatures like the smaller ones It has been a source of wonder for scientists why marine animals that reside in the deep sea and polar oceans reach large sizes there but nowhere else.

The Surprising Sound Source of Birds

Researchers discover that the best place for the voice box of a bird is low in the airway Every air-breathing vertebrate possesses a larynx which is similar to a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds.

Why it’s Hard to Reintegrate into the Workplace After a Heart Attack

Now patients with a heart attack that want to return to work can do it! The main message in a paper published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology is that it is now possible for the heart attack patients that have the desire of returning to work.

A Diet Rich in Animal Protein and Meat Linked to Greater Risk of Death

A diet rich in animal protein may not be good for the health From the University of Eastern Finland, some researchers have discovered that food rich in animal protein and meat, in particular, is not good for the health, offering further backing to earlier evidence from studies.
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