The fitness industry's favorite target of 10,000 daily steps may be a myth—at least for older adults, who appear to gain most of mortality's benefits at a considerably lower threshold. The post A meta-analysis of nearly 47,500 adults found that mortality risk kept falling as people took more daily steps, with the association levelling off at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day among adults aged 60 and older. appeared first on Space Daily .
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Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts may have flexed without collapsing, revealing a feeding adaptation unknown in living planthoppers. About 99 million years ago, a tiny insect became trapped in tree resin with mouthparts nearly twice the length of its body. The resin hardened into amber, preserving an unusual feeding organ that [...]
An enzyme called GRK2 clumps up and damages cellular powerhouses in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease. Newly developed chemical compounds that prevent or eliminate these clumps helped preserve memory and slow brain cell death in the animals.
A dinosaur fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum collection for nearly a century has turned out to belong to a previously unknown predator with enormous curved claws. The animal, roughly the size of a large tiger, lived in what is now Britain about 120 million years ago. The discovery was made by a research [...]
Korean researchers developed BF-04, a compound that treats cancer by blocking microtubules while imaging tumors and drug distribution in real time.
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