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A new study has found that listening to our favorite music and the emotional responses it produces, particularly if it’s bittersweet, is more effective at reducing our perception of pain than unfamiliar relaxation music. The findings suggest that music… Continue reading Bittersweet symphony: Our favorite music can help us deal with pain
Scientists in Canada have developed a new technique that may one day help restore some sight to patients with inherited vision impairment. The regenerative therapy works by expressing genes that convert dormant cells into new light-sensing cells in the… Continue reading Gene therapy could help restore vision lost to degenerative disease
Back in 2016, four years before a pandemic saw the world grind to a halt, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was sounding the alarm on zoonotic diseases, identifying them as a key emerging issue of global concern.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading AI could be the secret weapon in preventing the next global pandemic
Examining the tiny world of proteins is tricky, but researchers at the Université de Montréal have developed a new tool that can let scientists peer closer, aiding study of disease and drug development. The team used DNA to create nanoantennas that flu… Continue reading Glowing nanoantennas made of DNA spy on proteins in action
Aging affects everybody, so it’s easy to understand why so much scientific attention is focused on studying it. Scientists in Canada now claim to have found that telomeres play a different role in cellular aging than previously thought.Continue Reading… Continue reading Anti-aging research uncovers new role for telomeres
Even with today’s various sewage-treatment technologies, a great deal of municipal wastewater is still released back into waterways either partially or completely untreated. According to a new study, however, plots of willow trees could be used to clea… Continue reading Willow trees used to produce helpful substances while treating sewage
WASP-107b was already one of the weirdest exoplanets ever discovered, with its incredibly low mass for its size giving it the density of cotton candy. On closer inspection, astronomers have now found that its density is even lower than previously thoug… Continue reading “Cotton candy” exoplanet defies models for how gas giants form
WASP-107b was already one of the weirdest exoplanets ever discovered, with its incredibly low mass for its size giving it the density of cotton candy. On closer inspection, astronomers have now found that its density is even lower than previously thoug… Continue reading “Cotton candy” exoplanet defies models for how gas giants form
Not all maple syrups are created equal. There are actually over 60 taste categories that syrups fall into, as determined by human taste-testers. Soon, though, a solution containing gold nanoparticles could save those people some work.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Gold nanoparticles used to taste-grade maple syrup
A compelling new study has followed thousands of Canadian teenagers for several years tracking associations between screen time use and depression. The research separated different types of screen time, and found while frequent television and… Continue reading Teen depression linked to social media screen time, but video games are fine