Новости за 29.03.2023

[tbc] The record for the maximum human lifespan has stayed unbroken since the 1990s but that might change, according to a new way of analysing mortality records

Poor diet is the biggest cause of avoidable illness and premature death in high-income countries. Our food system is broken, say Henry Dimbleby and Jemima Lewis

Carl Sagan's novel Contact, in which Ellie Arroway searches for alien intelligence, has been an inspiration and a guide, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

UK competition authority is forcing Sika to find another buyer

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https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/DT/D2DT03672J

In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65 years and older living in the US

An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton’s radius alters depending on whether you look at the particle's charge or mass

Researchers have tweaked structures made by bacteria so that they can target human cells and inject proteins into them, a trick that could lead to targeted medical treatments

More holistic methods are needed to accurately assess the quality of a researcher’s work

A hydrogel battery that can perform well in below-freezing temperatures and survive all sorts of damage could keep phones working even when conditions get tough

Japanese mission returns pristine sample to bolster idea that prebiotic chemicals could have been delivered by meteorites

Compound inhibits receptor associated with signaling in certain cells in the central nervous system

Merchants from abroad married into powerful local families on the Swahili coast

Computer code that converts each element into a unique piece of music could provide a novel way to expand chemistry communication

Sequences from samples taken at Wuhan market confirm live animals were sold

Plan would see low-cost missions every 2 years

Study could lead to new ways to treat eating disorders

Scientists suggest GISAID, a virus sequence database, is rewriting pandemic history

Stricter rules could prevent disease outbreaks, but allowances for fur farming spur concern

Some male cockroaches have adapted their mating strategy to succeed with females that have developed a distaste for the sugar used in both poisonous baits and gifts from males

Advisers to the UK government warn that failure to plan for the effects of climate change is putting the country at risk of threats such as food shortages and power blackouts

Fibrous protein threads hold together the mucus in hagfish slime, giving it up to 1000 times the clogging power of common thickeners like xanthan gum when dissolved in water