Cancer
What fruits should cancer patients eat?
Certain foods, including fruits that contain health-promoting compounds, can slow tumor growth and reduce certain side effects of treatment that make it easier for cance…
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The new paint helps halve the amount of toilet flush
US researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of water needed for each toilet flush by half.
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If you thought growing a houseplant could purify the air, you're wrong!
Filling your house with plants may make you happier, but it will not help you breathe any cleaner unless you have to grow an extremely large number of plants.
Environment
Creating compounds that filter CO2 and turn them into materials for bottles and clothes
Material chemist Ken-ichi Otake of Kyoto University, Japan, and his colleagues have recently created a compound that can attract carbon dioxide molecules in the air and…
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Body odor from a scientific perspective
Most of us are sensitive to body odor, even a light breath can identify the unpleasant odor.
Health
When cleaning floors with bleach, do not turn on the lights
Many people use a lemon or orange scented cleaner to clean the floor and turn on the lights to see the stains, but this combination creates super fine dust.
Health
Precious substances from rice cause cancer cell death
Momilactones B extracted from white rice has an effect on human breast cancer cells that inhibit growth because of the low oxygen environment.
Health
How to eat delicious, healthy, but 'destructive' vegetables in your body
Research from the US has identified a number of compounds that kill microorganisms that can mistakenly kill the beneficial bacteria in the human gut, which you may encou…
Health
Russia has developed a new source of anti-virus medicine
Traditionally, medicine cannot use fullerene to make drugs because fullerene is insoluble in water.
Biology
Discover how cannabis plants 'synthesize' pain killers
The fact that Canadian scientists in the lab discovered how cannabis produces pain-reducing compounds will help produce cannflavin - the painkiller - that has a 30-fold…
Health
8 reasons you should eat bananas every day
Bananas are the most exported fruit in the world, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Bananas are rich in essential nutrients, including m…
Health
The 'panacea' in green tea repels the super disease that antibiotics are impotent
A good golden compound for humans in green tea is poisonous with resistant viruses.
Space science
'Projection' of the strange substance Propadiene on the Saturn Titan moon
Astronomers using NASA's Infrared Telescope (IRTF) discovered propadiene - a colorless, flammable gas known as a specialized welding fuel in the stratosphere of the Moon…
Health
Find a way to 'disable' the HIV virus
A group of multinational scientists has announced they have discovered a group of compounds that can break down HIV virus molecules and render them inactive.
New technology
Calcium: Popular, safe, and cheap materials can end the era of Li-ion batteries
Scientists are aiming to make new generation batteries with anodes made of calcium. Clearly, more abundant calcium can help reduce battery costs. Calcium batteries are a…