Researchers at UCLA have created an edible particle that helps make lab-grown meat, known as cultured meat, with more natural muscle-like texture using a process that could be scaled up for mass production.
Led by Amy Rowat, who holds UCLA's Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair of Food Studies, the researchers have invented edible particles called microcarriers with customized structures and textures that help precursor muscle cells grow quickly and form muscle-like tissues. Edible microcarriers could reduce the...
Technology has enabled the creation of a vast and growing amount of information, leading to benefits (e.g., more data to learn from) as well as drawbacks (e.g., the spread of fake news). New research sought to determine how and why people value information. The research found that people grow attached to information just as they do to physical objects, even when that information cannot be translated into material outcomes.
The findings, by researchers at Carnegie...
Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance, and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China's regulators for the first time, the BBC reports.
Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in – and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms.
They are closely guarded by companies.
In the U.S., Meta and Alphabet have successfully argued they are trade secrets amid calls for more disclosure.
The Cyberspace Administration of China...
Thousands of federal troops have been deployed to several Mexican border cities, including Tijuana, amid a flare up in gang violence.
The northern state of Baja California was hit by a wave of arson that saw nearly 30 vehicles burned and highways blocked on Friday night, the BBC reports.
It followed a week of violence and shootings in other Mexican states.
The central government has blamed the chaos on the powerful Jalisco New Generation drug cartel.
Officials have...
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have made two discoveries about the behaviour of "supercritical matter" — matter at the critical point at which the differences between liquids and gases seemingly disappear.
While the behaviour of matter at reasonably low temperature and pressure was well understood, the picture of matter at high temperature and pressure was blurred. Above the critical point, differences between liquids and gases seemingly disappear, and the supercritical matter was thought...
Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good," after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state.
He was attacked on stage, and is now on a ventilator and unable to speak, Andrew Wylie said in a statement, adding that the author may lose one eye.
Rushdie has suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, published in 1988.
Police detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from...
(California Institute of Technology) – Imagine driving home after a long day at work. Suddenly, a car careens out of an obscured side street and turns right in front of you. Luckily, your autonomous car saw this vehicle long before it came within your line of sight and slowed to avoid a crash. This might seem like magic, but a technique developed at Caltech brings the concept closer to a reality.
With the advent of autonomous...
(British Medical Journal) – Clinicians' reluctance to discuss possible harms of anal sex is letting down a generation of young women who are unaware of the risks, warn researchers in The BMJ today.
Surgeons Tabitha Gana and Lesley Hunt argue that as anal intercourse becomes more common amongst heterosexual couples, failure to discuss it "exposes women to missed diagnoses, futile treatments, and further harm arising from a lack of medical advice."
They say healthcare professionals, particularly those in general practice,...
In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers define how the circadian clock influences cell growth, metabolism, and tumour progression. Their research also reveals how disruption of the circadian clock affects genome stability and mutations that can further drive critical tumour-promoting pathways in the intestine.
The study, titled, "Disruption of the Circadian Clock drives Apc Loss of Heterozygosity to Accelerate Colorectal Cancer", was published today in Science Advances.
Researchers found that both genetic disruption and environmental...
Caffeine jump-starts your day and puts a bounce in your step. It can help you focus, improve your mood and maybe even help you live longer.
But how much is too much?
Caffeine, a natural stimulant, can be found in a variety of foods, such as coffee beans, tea leaves, cacao beans, guarana berries, and yerba maté leaves. It also can be synthetically created and added to beverages such as soda and energy drinks. Research shows that...
