Frequent heat waves make the biological clock work quickly

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Frequent exposure to severe thermal events can accelerate the aging of the body. A long-term study of about 25,000 people in Taiwan found that, for every 1.3 ℃, any person has been added, about 0.023-0.031 years old to their biological clock on average-which can be compared to regular smoking or alcohol consumption. The environmental epidemic and co -author of the study, Cui Guo, says the effect appears small, but “can have meaningful general health effects.” “Heatwave’s wave is not a personal risk factor, but it is a global concern,” she says.

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reference: Nature climate change paper

The lung was planted from a genetically modified pig to a person for the first time. The recipient, a 39 -year -old man, was fatal in the brain, but the member survived for 9 days. The team behind the transplant notes that there are no signs of rejection, but the organ seemed to be involved after 24 hours and some lung tissue was afflicted with lack of oxygen during the procedure. They also noticed some damage caused by antibodies that attack the lung, but this decreased on the ninth day, and at this stage the study stopped.

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reference: Nature Medicine paper

On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court made the efforts of researchers to return nearly $ 2 billion in grants issued by the National Health Institutes (NIH). Judges have decided that the court decisions-such as the fiery ruling in June, which were described as the discrimination of the Trump administration-were not valid. Although the Supreme Court has partially sentenced researchers in some other matters, some scholars say that the decision reaches the actual victory by the Trump administration. “In the scientific sense, this is a complete loss.

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Principals with A relatively long thumb – including humans – tends to have greater brains than those that have a shorter thumbThis indicates that the brain may be sophisticated with manual ingenuity. In particular, the modern cerebral cortex – a brain region that participates in perception and planning – is the largest in the priorities with a long thumb in relation to the size of its hand. However, just because the type has a long thumb, it does not mean that it uses its full potential – the direction of the “long thumb/the greatest brain” applies to the princesses, regardless of whether or not they use tools.

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reference: Communications biology paper

Features and opinion

Do not feel embarrassed at the next dinner party by repeating the common misconceptions about quantum theory – let six major physicists put you on the right track:

• The quantum physicist Maria Villaris explains that scientists have not been able to restore particles in time – so far.

• Estelle Inac says it is one thing that you have a quantum computer, but it is another to extract the correct answer for a complex account of it.

• Theoretical physicist Sabine Hosnviller tells that Albert Einstein did not reject the concept of tangle as a “nervous work at a distance”.

• Physicist Norma Sanchez believes that the two great theories of general relativity and quantum physics can be reconciled-and they work on a kind of quantitative time that may perform the task.

• Quantitative computing will not break all encryption – most likely – says the theoretical computer world Shweeta Agrawal.

• There is no ideal explanation for what quantum mechanics say about the nature of reality, says physicist and philosopher Emily Edlam. We are still “waiting for a stroke of inspiration that may open our eyes to the truth.”

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Thanks to successful public health campaigns, everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. A similar approach is needed to help people reduce the risk of death or injury to natural disasters, says the public health scientist in disaster Shinichi Corama. “Risk -reducing consultants can show pictures and realistic conditions of damage to the earthquake and tsunami, directing people to services to make buildings resist to the earthquake and explain how to conduct evacuation exercises,” he writes. “Ready for disasters must become a social base.”

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“When citizens are properly funded and maintained, citizens’ science is more than just a data collection tool,” says Sasha Woods, director of science and politics at Earthwatch Europe, an environmental non -profit. “It is an incentive for cultural transformation.” One of the desperate areas of such a transformation is the fresh water system, which is compensated for work. Water test events such as Great UK Waterblitz give societies a direct vision of problems, creating “pressure from bottom to top to top to bottom”.

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Where I work

The biologist Lorenzo Cosolino is studying the effect of exact plastic plastic on marine life such as mollusks, crustaceans and seaweed. He says: “Recently, I was eating pasta with mussels, and I kept some analysis in the laboratory. This was not an official scientific study, but despite that, I found microscopic fibers in it.” “As a scientist, I am working to understand the problem, but we also need some political effort to address it.” (Nature | 3 minutes Reading) (Gianmarco Di Costanzo nature))

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