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The search for functional natural compounds that can improve age-related cognitive decline has recently emerged as an important research focus to promote healthy aging. Trigonelline (TG), a plant alkaloid found in coffee, as well as in…

T cells experience different mechanical signals in different tissues. Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS led by David Mooney engineered a tissue-mimicking hydrogel model to show that more elastic tissues induce T cells…

DNA can mimic protein functions by folding into elaborate, three-dimensional structures, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of…

As the roll-out of private 5G infrastructures gains further momentum from the rapid pace of 2022, a study from global wireless ecosystem consortium the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has outlined the critical role new and existing…

a. Mammalian’s ocular/vestibular cross-modal motion sensory system; b. neuromorphic motion perception system based on flexible synaptic transistors. Credit: Nature…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Within the rapidly changing landscape of data providers, governments must address concerns over who…

Over the past two decades, a great deal of attention has been given to marijuana – also known as pot or weed. As of early 2023, marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in 21 states and Washington, D.C., and the use of…

A still from the 2013 film The Great Gatsby. | Photo Credit: AP If Vyasa, Chaucer, Joseph Conrad, Scott F. Fitzgerald and the perspicacious storytellers of the Jatakas and One Thousand and One Nights were to confabulate in afterlife on…

The brain performs various cognitive and behavioral functions in everyday life, flexibly transitioning to various states to carry out these functions. Scientists view the brain as a system that performs these numerous functions by…