If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then a new study suggests upsizing this to a fruit salad may offer even more – by significantly lowering the risk of depressive symptoms with age. It's the latest in a growing body of evidence that points to the long-lasting and wide-reaching health benefits of incorporating fruit into any diet.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTag
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Radioactive ‘fruit sugar’ lights up cancer and inflammation
Posted by ArielTechGeek 258 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
A radioactive form of fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit, given to mice lit up areas of cancer and inflammation on a diagnostic medical scan. The researchers say the approach makes diseases easier to spot than current techniques and opens the door to new avenues of early detection.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Sugar, Diagnosis, Diagnostic devices, Cancer, University of Ott
Sunflower waste extract shown to keep fruit from molding
Posted by ArielTechGeek 378 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Blueberries and other fruits are quite prone to fungi such as gray mold, whereas sunflowers are resistant to them. With that fact in mind, scientists have now used an extract from waste sunflower stems to keep such fruits from molding.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: American Chemical Society, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Plants, Agriculture, Fruit, Fungus
Virgin birth at Cambridge thanks to genetically modified fruit flies
Posted by ArielTechGeek 467 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
By decoding a genetic process responsible for asexual reproduction, researchers induced virgin births for the first time in a normally sexual fruit fly species. It was then discovered that the remarkable trait was passed down to all of the flies' daughters. The finding could help scientists find new ways to protect crops from insect pests that are increasingly able to reproduce without mates.Cont
Co.arch Studio creates show kitchen for candied fruit specialist Cesarin
Posted by Ronnie 526 days ago (https://www.dezeen.com)
An Italian company that makes candied fruit now has a dedicated space for cookery demonstrations, designed by Milan-based architecture office Co.arch Studio. Read more
Edible CBD coating keeps fruit fresher for longer
Posted by ArielTechGeek 535 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
It may be delicious and healthy, but fruit is frustratingly fickle too, often going bad quickly in the fridge. Now, researchers in Thailand have developed an invisible, edible coating made with cannabidiol (CBD) that can preserve fruit for much longer.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Food, Food technology, Waste, Fruit, Coating, Coatings, Cannabis, Thailand
Simple process converts fruit waste into water-purifying material
Posted by ArielTechGeek 614 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Solar stills provide a clever and simple means of purifying dirty or salty water, but they work at a rather slow rate. A new material has been shown to boost their performance, and it's made from fruit waste which would otherwise be discarded.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Nanyang Technological University, Water, Purification, Heating, Sunlight, Agri-waste, Environmentall
on view until march 23, 2023, the exhibition features larger-than-life mollusks and cocktail skewers strewn about the gallery.
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Fruit flies found to move their retinas, instead of moving their eyes
Posted by ArielTechGeek 740 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Fruit flies differ from us in a great many ways, including the fact that they can't move their eyes relative to the rest of their head. That's not a problem, however, as new research shows that they move their retinas within their unmoving eyes instead.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: The Rockefeller University, Vision, Fruit Flies
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