Hooray! A Clearer Estimate of Your Risk for Death Is Around the Corner
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) “Know Your Chances” website, which can calculate an individual’s risk for death over the coming years, is about to get more accurate by including smoking history, researchers reported. If smoking status isn’t taken into account, the mortality risks are underestimated for smokers and overestimated for nonsmokers, according to Steven Woloshin, […]
For Parents Fearful Of Their Teens’ Social Media Use, Here’s Some Hope — And Advice
If you have a teen girl, chances are she’s spending hours online every day — and you’re probably spending at least as many hours worrying about her safety there. We’ve known for some time that social media can be detrimental to anyone’s mental health, and particularly that of teen girls. Meta, the company that owns […]
Bacterial cellulose could enable microbial life on Mars: Research team studies kombucha cultures under simulated extraterrestrial conditions
An international research team including the University of Göttingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes called tea fungus or mushroom tea, which is produced by fermenting sugared tea using kombucha cultures — a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. Although the simulated […]