Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities is predicting that Apple will refresh the MacBook Pro this year, with both Kaby Lake processors and a substantial RAM upgrade. Apple’s decision to stick with 16GB of RAM and Intel’s older Skylake processors were both criticized when the MacBook Pro refresh launched in …
Read More »Health costs could eat up most of your Social Security benefits
More than half of elderly married couples and nearly 75 percent single retirees depend on Social Security for the majority of their income in retirement. “Women disproportionately rely on Social Security in retirement,” said Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, which advocates for the expansion of the program. In …
Read More »Physicists Suggest Light Could Exist in Previously Unknown Form
According to a team of physicists at Imperial College London (ICL), UK, it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. Artistic image of light trapped on the surface of a topological insulator. Image credit: Vincenzo Giannini. …
Read More »Platypus Venom Could Hold Key to Successful Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
The same hormone produced in the gut of the duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) to regulate blood glucose is also produced in the animal’s venom, a team of scientists led by University of Adelaide researchers has found — and that hormone could be used in new treatments for type 2 diabetes. …
Read More »Saturn’s Rings Could Have Formed when Dinosaurs Walked the Earth
Saturn’s rings are billions of years younger than we thought, say Cornell University researchers analyzing an almost forgotten set of data, collected 10 years ago by NASA’s Cassini mission. This image is a view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope taken on March 22, 2004. Camera exposures in four filters …
Read More »Concentrically-Fractured Depression on Mars Could Be Place to Look for Signs of Microbial Life
An unusual depression in the northern Hellas basin on Mars could be a new place to look for life on the planet, says a team of planetary researchers. The depression was probably formed by a volcano beneath a glacier and could have been a warm environment well suited for microbial …
Read More »Ice-Quake Echoes Could Lift Lid on Oceans within Pluto and Europa
Measuring outer solar system ice-quakes could identify if Europa’s subsurface ocean is an oxygen-rich, leading candidates for life, or uncover the origin of Enceladus’ giant water plumes, says a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They propose that cryo-seismology techniques could also ‘explore’ Pluto’s own newly predicted subsurface sea. Artist’s …
Read More »Could Protein Drinks Harm Your Health?
Consuming excess amount of protein drinks can lead to side effects like Stomach Problems, Allergy, Thyroid Issues etc. Protein shakes can offer valuable nutrients and, in certain circumstances, support weight loss, but they could also pose health risks of which many consumers are unaware. Keep in mind that not all …
Read More »Cheaper, longer-lasting epinephrine pills could soon replace overpriced EpiPens
For people with severe allergies, having a ready supply of epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) can be the difference between a mild inconvenience and death. That’s why the recent price hike on the EpiPen auto-injector manufactured by Mylan was such a hot button issue for patients. The company’s CEO, Heather …
Read More »Microscopic magnets could revolutionize drug delivery
Targeting medications inside the body is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. Most drugs are simply allowed to diffuse throughout the body, eventually coming into contact with the organ or tissue it was intended to affect, but a team of Chinese scientists may have found a better way. …
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