It was found that low-dose usage of Aspirin did not have effect in healthy older adults without previous cardiovascular events. Risk of dying from a range of causes, including cancer and heart disease, varied and will require further analysis and additional follow-up of study participants. These initial findings from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in […]

The cost of genetic testing for families having a child with birth defects or couples at risk, will be fully covered by the Welfare Organization, Fatemeh Abbasi an official with the Organization has said. Genetic testing costs about 50 million rials (nearly $1,200), which is completely paid by the Organization, she stated, ISNA reported on […]

SpaceX plans to announce the identity of the first person it intends to send around the moon next week as its on-again, off-again lunar ambitions appear to be back on. In a pair of tweets late Sept. 13, the company said it has signed up a person to fly around the moon on the company’s […]

Artificial intelligence found its way to fields of astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI, as Researchers use machine learning to discover radio bursts from mysterious sources in the universe. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a SETI project led by the University of California, Berkeley, have now used machine learning to […]

 Meteorites may hold new clues about the supernova explosions from which the stars and planets of our solar system formed. When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it implodes. This releases stellar material into space, creating a fiery explosion known as a supernova. In turn, that material gets recycled to form new […]

A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reactions needed for ‘artificial photosynthesis’. In the light of global climate change, there is an urgent need to develop efficient ways of obtaining and storing power from renewable energy sources. The photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen […]

A novel University of Otago study has highlighted the value of sleep as a “promising” way to counter an epidemic of overweight and obesity among New Zealand children. One in three New Zealand children is overweight or obese when they start school, research team co-leader Prof Rachael Taylor says. The parents of half the 800 […]

The so-called CB1 receptor is responsible for the intoxicating effect of cannabis. However, it appears to act also as a kind of “sensor” with which neurons measure and control the activity of certain immune cells in the brain. A recent study by the University of Bonn at least points in this direction. If the sensor […]

Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team revealed that the molecular clouds in the galaxy are highly unstable, which leads to runaway star formation. Monster galaxies are thought to be the ancestors of the huge elliptical galaxies […]

 Researchers investigating the effects of air pollution conducted tests on more than 25,000 people in 162 Chinese counties and found that pollution is linked to a significant decline in cognition, and that the impact increases with age. A trio of researchers from Beijing Normal University, Yale University and Peking University has found a link between […]