28 April, 2019

A history of the Crusades, as told by crusaders' DNA. Researchers find genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side


By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers at the French National Center for Scientific Research have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.


30 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise boosts neural processing of semantic memory (memories that relate to language, words, and names), finds a new brain imaging study (age 55-85), which suggests that a similar workout just before a test requiring semantic memory might improve your performance.


Optimism is lowest in people's twenties, rises steadily into people's thirties and forties, peaks in people's fifties, and gradually declines after that, suggests new research (n=1,169) that charts the trajectory of optimism over the lifespan, which found people experienced peak optimism at age 55.


Guided RNA ‘missile’ makes CRISPR fifty times more accurate.


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Guided RNA ‘missile’ makes CRISPR fifty times more accurate.

Work stress and impaired sleep are linked to a threefold higher risk of cardiovascular death in employees with hypertension. The study included 1,959 hypertensive workers aged 25-65, without cardiovascular disease or diabetes.


Paper Proposes Traversable Wormholes are Possible, but "do not Enable One to Travel Faster than Light Over Long Distances Through Space."