The health benefits of vitamins include supporting a healthy metabolism, improving immune system health, improving night vision, and healthy bone development. However, the diets consumed by most Western families leave much to be desired – high in carbohydrates and processed fats, these foods are virtually devoid of vitamins. 1. THEY SUPPORT […]
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Tips To Pass The DMV Writing Test
The writing test is an important and inevitable component of the DMV driving test. With a combination of written and practical tests, it is mandatory for candidates to pass in both tests to receive a DMV license. DMV writing tests candidates on their knowledge and awareness of road signs, traffic […]
NASA Building Robot for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
NASA will test a robot that will travel under the ice in the upcoming southern summer of Antarctica, to use it in 2025 on a mission to find evidence of extraterrestrial life on a Jupiter’s moon. The autonomous, one-meter-long robot, which is capable of operating in the water, has independent […]
Device the Size of a Microwave Oven Can Absorb Moisture from Desert Air
The device that can absorb moisture from the desert air is produced by a start-up called Water Harvester Inc. Water is one of the most important resources that our planet can provide, over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water; however, most of it is saltwater that we […]
Astronomy: Class of Planets Excluded from the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomers have come to the conclusion that solid planets, similar in size to Earth and orbiting around a red star, could not sustain life as we know it. The search for life in the Universe is an activity that currently represents the interest of many scientists, as well as an […]
How to Protect Ourselves in Case of a Nuclear Disaster: Immediate Measures to Take if Exposed to Radiation
Nuclear radiation is a serious and much-debated topic. Based on the most recent events, when a nuclear explosion occurred in Russia on August 8, 2019, we realize that the challenges of the times we live in are forcing us to know as many defense methods as possible in various limit-situations. […]
Pigeons Could Be Used to Monitorize Earth’s Pollution
Atmospheric pollution causes cardiac, pulmonary or other serious conditions that have long-term impact on our health. Because of this, one in six premature deaths around the world is linked to polluted air, shows a study. Furthermore, the study also shows that the US is the leader in terms of greenhouse […]
Scientists Are Struggling to Keep Genetically-edited Animals Alive
Geneticists around the world are making sustained efforts to overcome the stage where they perform experiments on model-organisms such as some flies or zebrafish, focusing their efforts on designing bodies to be used in future studies. Today’s genetic studies use model-organisms – non-human species on which experiments are carried out […]
New Renewable Energy Source by Mixing Fresh and Salted Water
Developed by a team of American researchers, this technology could sustainably provide vast amounts of electricity, generated using the salinity difference occurring at the discharge of watercourses into the sea. Installed at the points where rivers discharge into the sea, new installations for generating electricity do not have components in […]
Mitochondrial DNA Can also be Transmitted from Father to Child
The DNA is not entirely the same, and science has proven that only parts of DNA are transmitted from the mother and from the father to the fetus. Although it was previously believed that mitochondrial DNA was inherited only from the mother, specialists first discovered that it could be transmitted […]