Caloric Restriction Comes in a Pill | Wired Science | Wired.com

Caloric Restriction Comes in a Pill | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet that the anti-aging benefits of calorically restricted diets can be duplicated — minus the near-starvation — by a pill."

How to Do the Ultimate Aging Study | Wired Science | Wired.com

How to Do the Ultimate Aging Study | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Resveratrol, a natural compound that affects mitochondrial function and DNA repair, and its pharmaceutical derivatives have been used to prevent diabetes in obese mice. Now they’re being tested in humans. Manipulations of the growth-regulating IGF-1 pathway have extended lifespans in lab animals. Rapamycin, used to suppress autoimmune responses in people receiving organ transplants, has extended the lives of elderly mice. It’s now being tested in mice against specific diseases."

Slashdot Science Story | Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World

Slashdot Science Story | Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World: "'Scientists have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. 'In order to study these nanoscale quantum effects, the researchers have focused on the magnetic material cobalt niobate. It consists of linked magnetic atoms, which form chains just like a very thin bar magnet, but only one atom wide.' By artificially introducing more quantum uncertainty, the researchers observed that the chain acts like a nanoscale guitar string. The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture."

Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today

Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today: "Observational data from nine pulsars, including the Crab pulsar, suggest these rapidly spinning neutron stars emit the electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, and a model created to understand this phenomenon shows that the source of the emissions could be traveling faster than the speed of light."

Calorie restriction: Scientists take important step toward 'fountain of youth'

Calorie restriction: Scientists take important step toward 'fountain of youth': "Going back for a second dessert after your holiday meal might not be the best strategy for living a long, cancer-free life say researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That's because they've shown exactly how restricted calorie diets -- specifically in the form of restricted glucose -- help human cells live longe"

Has dark matter finally been detected? | Science | The Guardian

Has dark matter finally been detected? | Science | The Guardian: "In a series of coordinated announcements at several US laboratories, researchers said they believed they had captured dark matter in a defunct iron ore mine half a mile underground. The claim, if confirmed next year, will rank as one the most spectacular discoveries in physics in the past century."

Playing tricks with the speed of light

Playing tricks with the speed of light: "The mechanics of slowing light down, as well as speeding it up, is governed by methods and equations that are pretty well understood. Now scientists just have to figure out what to do with it."

First Programmable Quantum Computer Created - Science News

First Programmable Quantum Computer Created - Science News: "Using a few ultracold ions, intense lasers and some electrodes, researchers have built the first programmable quantum computer. The new system, described in a paper to be published in Nature Physics, flexed its versatility by performing 160 randomly chosen processing routines."

Turritopsis nutricula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Turritopsis nutricula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The ability to reverse the life cycle is probably unique in the animal kingdom, and allows the jellyfish to bypass death, rendering the Turritopsis nutricula biologically immortal."

How to Extract DNA from Anything Living

How to Extract DNA from Anything Living: "For this experiment, we like to use green split peas."

Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces canc... [Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed result

Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces canc... [Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed result: "Numerous observational studies have found supplemental calcium and vitamin D to be associated with reduced risk of common cancers."

“Longevity Genes” -Why Some of Us Live Longer

“Longevity Genes” -Why Some of Us Live Longer: "Scientists have long been baffled as to why some people live so much longer than others. Diet and exercise account for some of it, but researchers have found that genetics also factor heavily into the equation, and that long life is somewhat hereditary as it is with living bristlecone pine that were alive when Caesar ruled Rome."

Medical News: Gene Therapy based on reversed engineering HIV Arrests ALD Progression: "In what appears to be a first, European researchers have used gene therapy to arrest the progress of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, a fatal brain disease. In two 7-year-old boys, the gene therapy -- using a viral vector derived from HIV -- stopped the progressive demyelination characteristic of the disease"

Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The Guardian

Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The Guardian: "When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming."

The Past 5,000 Years Mark a New Epoch in Human Evolution (The Weekend Feature)

The Past 5,000 Years Mark a New Epoch in Human Evolution (The Weekend Feature): "We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals."

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The Way We Eat - The Science of Appetite - TIME

The Way We Eat - The Science of Appetite - TIME: "Nature prefers you fat, but you can take control. New research could explain better approaches to dieting and how to curb your appetite"

Free will is not an illusion after all - life - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist

Free will is not an illusion after all - life - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist: "Miller and Trevena also failed to find evidence of subconscious decision-making in a second experiment."

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - Telegraph

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - Telegraph: "Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years' time through nanotechnology and an increased understanding of how the body works."

Is String Theory an Unphysical Pile of Garbage? : Starts With A Bang

Is String Theory an Unphysical Pile of Garbage? : Starts With A Bang: "Quantum field theory is possibly the best-tested physical theory ever, with every single particle physics experiment ever performed confirming its validity."