Author: Marta Koblanska
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Are wind farms causing harm to cognitive functioning? Balancing between health and clean energy
Wind turbine, Photo: Viniane6276, Pixabay Wind farms are a substantial source of clean energy needed for green transformation. Is the noise they produce harmful for people and nature or not? Clean energy from various renewables may decrease dependence on fossil fuels as a major energy course. There are several ways to get the so-called green…
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What makes aging more friendly? X chromosome
Photo: Blueberries, congerdesign, Pixabay The later activation of the X chromosome may enhance cognitive function, which could partly explain why women tend to have longer lifespans. Each of us inherits our genetic background from our parents, grandparents, and even distant ancestors that we may have forgotten. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, with one set…
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Plant protection is the key to sustaining life. Singapore’s example
Photo: The Singapore General Hospital Bicentennial Garden, authors: Abner Herbert Lim, Bin Tean Teh Genomic gardens of plants necessary to cure impaired people may be the only way to secure biodiversity, as urbanization and climate change lead to green destruction. Modern medicine would not have reached the level of today’s advancement without plants. They have been…
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Paradox of evolution. What can capture and unleash us from Earth?
Photo: Molecules, wastedgeneration, Pixabay A tiny insertion of a highly charged, binding potential helix into the space of RNA after the prokaryote code was lost or removed could change the direction of life’s evolution. RNA is a single-strand of ribonucleic acid, which is more primordial to DNA built with two strands and slightly different bases.…
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Are power users critical for grid resilience? The perception of the security of supply is changing.
Photo: Bharat Siddam, Pixabay Cyberattacks on grids may disrupt power supply as nowadays computers are steering the volumes. Are we willing to have a transforming station at home? Power grids are a kind of skeleton or nervous system of the country. There are grids with higher and lower frequencies that are subordinated to the volumes…
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Losing and awaking heartbeat. What is sleep in real?
Photo: This model suggests that the physiological processes influenced by fluctuations in norepinephrine (NA) during NREM sleep—particularly those related to memory consolidation and glymphatic clearance—function best when these fluctuations occur approximately every 50 seconds. Authors: Anita Lüthi, Maiken Nedergaard. Sleeping is a kind of disengagement from the environment to restore released earlier energy. Fragmented sleep harms…
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Is it Earth’s destiny to sustain life? At least the one we know
By Marta Koblańska, February 16, 10:30, Photo: PIRO, Pixabay When a new life is arising, an old one is passing away. Ancient belief for life cycles may be true, as chemistry set up founds for environmental processes crucial for emerging lives on Earth. One of the greatest ever philosophers Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza claimed that Earth in…
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Are war supporters leftish? That might be the case in the Ukrainian war
By Marta Koblanska, February 10, 18:00, Photo: MayaQ, Pixabay Over-trusted governments may cheat their voters with social welfare redistribution while in fact keep silent on human costs on the battlefield outside ruling area. Ukrainian war started after Russia attempted to invade the country what might have been planned for a very long time. The reasons…
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Does lack of oxygen in body cells trigger cancer?
Photo: Comparison of the performance of the 70 published hypoxia signatures using the IQM in 104 cancer cell lines, University of Oxford, Matteo Di Giovannantonio, Fiona Hartley Too high demand for oxygen in the body may signal cancer. A decrease of oxygen in tissues’ micro-environment shifts metabolic pathways. Oxygen is a substance without which there would have…