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Higher intakes of black tea, berries, citrus fruits and apples could help to promote healthy ageing, new research has found.
This study conducted by researchers from Edith Cowan University, Queen’s University Belfast and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that foods rich in flavonoids could help to lower the risk of key components of unhealthy ageing, including frailty, impaired physical function and poor mental health.
“The goal of medical research is not just to help people live longer but to ensure they stay healthy for as long as possible,” ECU Adjunct Lecturer Dr Nicola Bondonno said.
By Chuck Brooks
Dear Friends and Colleagues, this issue of the Security & Insights newsletter focuses on cybersecurity and the convergence of devices and networks. The convergence of the Internet of Things, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), and information technology (IT) has revealed vulnerabilities and expanded attack surfaces. They are prime targets for hackers, who frequently look for unprotected ports and systems on internet-connected industrial devices. Because they provide several avenues of entry for attackers and because older OT systems were not built to withstand cyberattacks, IT/OT/ICS supply chains in continuous integration (CI) are especially vulnerable. Below is a collection of articles that address the challenges and threats of cybersecurity for connected devices and people.
Thanks for reading and stay safe! Chuck Brooks
Growing cyberthreats to the internet of things.
IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Black holes traditionally feature singularities, points of infinite density that challenge existing physics. 🔭 New models propose regular black holes and mimickers that eliminate the need for singularities. 🌀 Regular black holes replace singularities with a finite-density core, maintaining a consistent spacetime geometry. 🚀 These innovative models open new avenues for
A new scientific review maps the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind memory formation, consolidation, generalization, and updating—revealing how memories are stored, altered, and even manipulated in the brain.
A new study using direct brain recordings reveals that human economic decision-making is not localized to a single brain region. Instead, multiple areas work together, with high-frequency activity encoding risk, reward probability, and the final choice itself.
Engineers have developed a water-based battery that could help Australian households store rooftop solar energy more safely, cheaply and efficiently than ever before.
Their next-generation “flow battery” opens the door to compact, high-performance battery systems for homes and is expected to be much cheaper than current $10,000 lithium-ion systems.
Flow batteries have been around for decades but have traditionally been used in large-scale energy storage due to their large size and slow charge speeds.
One of the most profound open questions in modern physics is: “Is gravity quantum?” The other fundamental forces—electromagnetic, weak, and strong—have all been successfully described, but no complete and consistent quantum theory of gravity yet exists.
“Theoretical physicists have proposed many possible scenarios, from gravity being inherently classical to fully quantum, but the debate remains unresolved because we’ve never had a clear way to test gravity’s quantum nature in the lab,” says Dongchel Shin, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE).
“The key to answering this lies in preparing mechanical systems that are massive enough to feel gravity, yet quiet enough—quantum enough—to reveal how gravity interacts with them.”