Stopping Stroke Before It Starts – With Ketchup - Stroke is becoming more common in younger Americans.
Can tomato sauce help prevent it? To start, some scary statistics. Stroke—the disruption of blood to the brain—is the fourth-leading cause of death among Americans, claiming a life every four minutes, and poses twice the risk to blacks as whites. Stroke inspires few telethons, 5Ks, or NFL awareness campaigns, but a woman is twice as likely to die from a stroke this year as from breast cancer. And stroke interrupts far more lives than it ends outright; the resulting brain damage has terrible human and financial costs. Worrisome, then, is the news, published recently in Neurology, that stroke is on the rise among younger Americans.
Kissela works at the University of Cincinnati and oversees a long-term regional study, funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, that examines racial disparities among stroke victims. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising. Futurism. Why the Last People on Earth Will Eat Sugar Cane and Corn. The Easiest, Most Horrifying Way to Create Artificial Wombs. Abortion. ultimately, i feel like this is how the issue of abortion will be resolved. first, a couple of ground rule, undeniable facts:
10 Structures That Could Help Us Build Civilizations on the Ocean. 10 of the Weirdest Futurist Scenarios for the Evolution of Humanity. It's Time to Bet on Genomics. Does the African genome hold the secrets of a previously unknown species of hominid? Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times. If slime mould ruled the world. Slime mould grows on agar continents between oat flakes in Andrew Adamatzky's experiments on world colonisation. Photograph: University of the West of England One question never far from scientists' minds is how events might unfold were a giant slime mould to emerge in the Far East and embark on global domination. History tells us what happened when restless humans set out into the world.
Kingdoms rose and fell as wars raged. Urban centres grew and connected. Could Humans Hibernate? Some animals have it made.
Their whole day revolves around eating and having sex (and, to be fair, trying not to get eaten themselves). And when winter arrives, they get to curl up somewhere and wait things out until the weather is nice again. Can humans get in on this hibernation thing? Bear image via Shutterstock. Why Can’t You Remember Being a Baby? There are probably blackout periods you can’t remember at all from your childhood, and the memories you do have are likely hazy and garbled. Although pretty much everyone experiences this phenomenon known as childhood amnesia, its causes are still somewhat of an enigma. Here are 4 hypotheses that might explain why you can’t remember much from your pre-kindergarten days. 1. Your Brain Was Underdeveloped Many neuroscientists argue that infants can’t lay down long-term memories because their brains aren’t fully developed.
Does Rain Come From Life in the Clouds? Back at their lab Christner and Bryan examine two dozen petri dishes containing bacteria collected from flights that peaked between 10,000 and 80,000 feet.
They have yet to sequence and ID the microbes’ DNA, but just looking at the petri dishes gives them some clues. Bright-colored colonies dot many of the dishes—reds, oranges, pinks, and yellows. How Is Wind Chill Calculated? (Plus 9 More Wind Chill FAQs) Is Trypophobia a Real Phobia? View Photo Gallery If you're like me and you have a visceral reaction to the image above—if it makes your skin crawl, your hair hurt, and your stomach turn—you can count yourself among the trypophobic.
It's Official: Neutrinos Can't Beat Speed of Light. By Mark Brown, Wired UK Physicists at the CERN laboratory have put the final nail in the coffin for the idea that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.
They also confirmed that the groundbreaking results from 2011 can be blamed on faulty equipment. [partner id="wireduk"] Back in September 2011, a team of particle physicists detected neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light as they traveled from CERN to the Gran Sasso lab. They smashed the universal speed limit by 60 nanoseconds — a result that was constant, even after 15,000 repetitions of the process. The results seem to run counter to a century’s worth of physics and would overturn Einsten’s special theory of relativity if true. Video: Soft, Floating Robots Connect to Form Larger Squishy 'Bot. The future of robotics is soft and modular, or at least that's they way some of the robotics gurus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne envision things moving. Rigid robots are fine, but true versatility in the robotic medium will come from modular robots that are flexible enough in form that they can adapt to task and environment.
So a team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) there is developing connections for soft, floating robots that would allow many small, squishy robots to organize themselves into a larger softbot through electroadhesion. Soft robotics is, relative to conventional robotics, a very young research discipline.