Recently, more and more people appear who do not drink alcohol even on holidays. New Year is coming soon, and if you want to celebrate the holiday soberly and at the same time cheerfully, without alcohol, then you can start preparing now. Think…
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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the question of how to survive self-isolation and quarantine is increasingly being asked. Residents of cities that are affected by the disease are recommended, and people over 65 are completely prohibited from spending time in crowded…
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Welcome to the iCover blog pages ! Experiments by Japanese neuroscientists carried out in 2015 led to an amazing conclusion: the formation of empathy between the owner and his dog becomes possible thanks to a subtle mechanism of positive feedback, similar to that which takes…
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Sedentary work, sedentary entertainment, a dislike of physical activity and an addiction to various types of snacks: this is the recipe for gaining excess weight and the road to obesity. But scientists from the University of Exeter (UK) decided to use computer addiction for good . The results of the experiment, published in the magazine Appetite , are encouraging –…
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Scientists from the Institute for Age Research . Leibniz (Germany) discovered the mechanism by which the mTORC1 protein complex controls metabolism in the mammalian body. It controls the transfer of hereditary information from genes to mRNA (gene expression), to proteins of the C / EBPβ group . Removing a short variant of these proteins from mice resulted in them…
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A sedentary lifestyle in the mode “9-10 hours at the computer – half an hour by car – two hours on the couch” does not dispose to health and vitality – this is a fact. The negative consequences are known to…
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Hi Geektimes! Today we will talk – suddenly! – about health. And to be precise – about how many hours of daily sitting at the computer affects and how you can minimize this harm in order to enjoy life in old age and…
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Scientists at the University of Tsukuba have discovered that aging of human cells can be slowed down or even reversed. They identified two genes whose functioning is associated with aging mechanisms. The cells of our body receive energy from the mitochondria living inside the organelles . Apparently, at…
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We had four centrifuges, a thousand Pasteur pipettes, reagent kits, a freezer for minus twenty, a thermal cycler, a phoresis chamber, and a transilluminator that turned on only if you pressed off. The only thing that raised doubts was how we…
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My first e-sports post , suddenly for me, turned out to be very popular. It turned out that many of the users of Geektimes and Habr are passionate about the topic, but they read all the news about it on specialized sites. The audience of…
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