News
- Materials Science
Velcro on steroids
Researchers have designed a steel analog of a well-known fastener.
- Chemistry
Blue halos of doom
Under ultraviolet light, rings around the brown spots in aging bananas may signal the transition from ripe to rotten, researchers say.
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Three genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease risk
Three new genes that raise the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease have been discovered in two large genome-wide searches.
- Health & Medicine
Tetris players are not block heads
Playing the geometry-based computer game can boost the brain’s gray matter.
- Planetary Science
Celestial population boom
Large meteoroids are probably more common than telescopic surveys suggest, new analyses find.
