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At a packed memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, his widow Erika Kirk publicly forgave ...
23/09/2025

At a packed memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, his widow Erika Kirk publicly forgave the man accused of killing her husband, invoking Christian teachings and calling for love over hate. Shortly after her speech, former President Donald Trump took the stage and sharply diverged from that message of forgiveness, telling the crowd, “I hate my opponents, and I don’t want what’s best for them.” Trump lauded Kirk as a martyr and called out the political left, framing the event both as tribute and as a rallying cry. The emotional service, attended by tens of thousands, has ignited fresh debate about political polarization, rhetoric, and the role of forgiveness in public life.

Enence is a Japanese-manufactured instant voice translation device that promises two-way speech translation across 60 la...
22/09/2025

Enence is a Japanese-manufactured instant voice translation device that promises two-way speech translation across 60 languages in just 1.5 seconds. It features a push-button interface: press one button to speak your language, release to hear it translated; press another to let the other person respond in their language. The device offers offline translation, once you’ve downloaded the required language packs via its smartphone app. It’s compact, designed for travelers, international business, and cross-cultural interaction without needing constant internet access. However, user reviews and tech-inspectors point out some limitations: connectivity issues, dependence on phone apps for full functionality, and questions about how accurate it is with idioms, regional accents, or longer sentences.

While matcha is celebrated for its antioxidants, mental clarity, and aesthetic “wellness” vibes, there are downsides tha...
22/09/2025

While matcha is celebrated for its antioxidants, mental clarity, and aesthetic “wellness” vibes, there are downsides that many overlook. According to health experts, excessive consumption (especially of low-quality or poorly processed matcha) can lead to caffeine-overload: jitteriness, insomnia, elevated heart rate, and, in some cases, increased blood pressure. Also, high doses of a compound called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), abundant in matcha, have been linked to liver stress in vulnerable individuals. Another issue: climate change is threatening matcha supply, with heatwaves in Japan reducing harvests and driving prices up — meaning cheaper matcha may skip quality controls, potentially exposing consumers to heavy metals or pesticide residues. So the drink’s green glow might hide some bitter risks.

Archaeologists working with the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,600-year-old clay seal (bul...
21/09/2025

Archaeologists working with the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,600-year-old clay seal (bulla) bearing the Paleo-Hebrew inscription “Belonging to Yeda’yah (son of) Asayahu.” Impressively, the back of the seal still retains a fingerprint, possibly left by the official himself. The style of the script dates it to the late First Temple period (late 7th to early 6th century BCE), around the time of King Josiah of Judah. In biblical accounts, Josiah ordered repairs to the Temple and rediscovered the “Book of the Law” (likely Deuteronomy), which contained warnings—curses—for disobedience, including famine, invasion, and destruction. While scholars caution that there's no definitive proof that this seal relates to the exact person or scroll from the Bible, its discovery lends tangible weight to those dramatic narratives.

New research confirms that the Silverpit Crater—buried about 700 meters beneath the seabed in the North Sea, some 80 mil...
21/09/2025

New research confirms that the Silverpit Crater—buried about 700 meters beneath the seabed in the North Sea, some 80 miles off the coast of Yorkshire—is not a salt-movement anomaly but was in fact created by an asteroid or comet impact around 43–46 million years ago. Scientists from Heriot-Watt University used seismic imaging, microscopic rock samples (including shocked quartz and feldspar), and numerical modeling to show that a ≈160-meter-wide asteroid struck the sea at a low angle, triggering massive shock pressures and creating a crater about 3.2 kilometers across with surrounding concentric fault zones. The impact would likely have produced a 100-meter-high tsunami, reshaping coastlines and ecosystems of the time. These findings, published in Nature Communications, end decades of debate over the crater’s origins.

A new study presented at the 2025 American Heart Association meetings found that although salt substitutes (salts where ...
20/09/2025

A new study presented at the 2025 American Heart Association meetings found that although salt substitutes (salts where much of the sodium is replaced by potassium) are an inexpensive, effective tool for lowering blood pressure, fewer than 6% of U.S. adults actually use them. Researchers analyzed nearly two decades of survey data (2017-2020) and demonstrated that using salt substitutes can help reduce overall sodium intake, which is a major contributor to high blood pressure and heart disease. Despite the clear health benefits, awareness and usage remain extremely low, even among people with hypertension—or whose high blood pressure is hard to treat. Experts are urging more public education and policy measures to make salt substitutes common in diets.

A research team in Japan led by Tomoki Kojima has won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology for a delightfully peculiar but...
20/09/2025

A research team in Japan led by Tomoki Kojima has won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology for a delightfully peculiar but surprisingly useful experiment: they painted beef cows with white zebra-like stripes to see if flies would bother them less. The scientists used tape and spray paint to create stripes on cows and found that these striped animals attracted fewer flies and displayed fewer fly-bothered behaviors compared to unpainted cows. While painting cows might not be scalable for all livestock, the study suggests a low-tech, chemical-free way of reducing fly irritation and possibly lowering disease risk in agricultural settings.

A study from the University of East Anglia has found that in cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), cancer cells activel...
20/09/2025

A study from the University of East Anglia has found that in cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), cancer cells actively age out nearby healthy bone marrow cells—essentially turning them old before their time. The mechanism involves the enzyme NOX2, which cancer cells use to produce superoxide (a kind of reactive oxygen molecule) that accelerates cellular wear in neighboring tissues; when NOX2 was inhibited, the premature aging effects lessened and leukemia growth slowed. This effect suggests cancer doesn’t just ravage tissue by growing itself, but corrupts the environment around it—potentially helping explain why survivors often face age‐related health problems long after remission.

Researchers have pinpointed a hidden driver of aging in mice— a protein called Menin in the hypothalamus whose levels dr...
19/09/2025

Researchers have pinpointed a hidden driver of aging in mice— a protein called Menin in the hypothalamus whose levels drop as animals grow older. When Menin declines, it sparks neuroinflammation, causes loss of bone density and skin thickness, disrupts balance and cognition, and accelerates other age-related declines. The breakthrough? Restoring Menin in older mice, or supplementing with the amino acid D-serine (which drops as Menin falls), reversed many of these aging features: memory improved, bones strengthened, skin thickened, and physical vitality rose. While this isn’t a fountain-of-youth pill (yet), it suggests aging might not just be slowed—it could be partially turned back.

A research team led by Zhongwei Li at USC Stem Cell has engineered incredibly advanced kidney “assembloids”—lab-grown ki...
18/09/2025

A research team led by Zhongwei Li at USC Stem Cell has engineered incredibly advanced kidney “assembloids”—lab-grown kidney structures combining both nephron (filtering units) and collecting-duct systems—that mature far beyond what was previously possible. When transplanted into living mice, these kidney assembloids developed connective tissue, blood vessels, and showed real kidney-like functions, such as filtering blood, taking up albumin, secreting kidney hormones, and even early signs of urine production. While mouse assembloids reached a maturity comparable to that of a newborn mouse kidney, the human assembloids also advanced well past embryonic stages. This work marks a big leap forward toward creating functional synthetic kidneys to help the many patients awaiting transplants.

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18/09/2025

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Scientists in Finland (University of Turku, Aalto University) and the Netherlands have developed an eco-friendly UV-prot...
18/09/2025

Scientists in Finland (University of Turku, Aalto University) and the Netherlands have developed an eco-friendly UV-protective film for solar cells using nanocellulose dyed with red onion skin extract. This bio-based film blocked 99.9% of harmful UV radiation up to 400 nanometers—far surpassing standard petroleum-based PET filters. Importantly, it kept more than 80% of visible-to-near-infrared light (650–1100 nm) passing through, so the solar cells could still generate power efficiently. After 1,000 hours of exposure under artificial sunlight (roughly equal to one year outdoors in central Europe), the film still preserved performance and resisted degradation. These findings suggest a sustainable, biodegradable alternative for protecting solar panels, organic or perovskite photovoltaics, and even power sensors or packaging tech.
Source: ScienceDaily.

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