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Your morning coffee could hasten species’ extinction

April 19, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Amanda Irwin, Arne Geschke, Thomas M. Brooks, Juha Siikamaki, Louise Mair, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg. Quantifying and categorising national extinction-risk footprints. Scientific Reports, 2022; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09827-0 Around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, according to the recent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessment report. … Read more

Squid skin-inspired cup cozy will keep your hands cool and your coffee hot

March 29, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Mohsin Ali Badshah, Erica M. Leung, Panyiming Liu, Aleksandra Anna Strzelecka, Alon A. Gorodetsky. Scalable manufacturing of sustainable packaging materials with tunable thermoregulability. Nature Sustainability, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00847-2 The innovation is an infrared-reflecting metallized polymer film developed in the laboratory of Alon Gorodetsky, UCI associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. In a … Read more

Good news for coffee lovers: Daily coffee may benefit the heart

March 27, 2022 by Tony Grantly

“Because coffee can quicken heart rate, some people worry that drinking it could trigger or worsen certain heart issues. This is where general medical advice to stop drinking coffee may come from. But our data suggest that daily coffee intake shouldn’t be discouraged, but rather included as a part of a healthy diet for people … Read more

Coffee and tea drinking may be associated with reduced rates of stroke and dementia

November 29, 2021 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Yuan Zhang, Hongxi Yang, Shu Li, Wei-dong Li, Yaogang Wang. Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke, dementia, and poststroke dementia: A cohort study in the UK Biobank. PLOS Medicine, 2021; 18 (11): e1003830 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003830 Strokes are life-threatening events which cause 10 percent of deaths globally. Dementia is a … Read more

Latte lovers rejoice! Study reveals drinking coffee could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease

November 26, 2021 by Tony Grantly

Latte lovers rejoice! Study reveals drinking coffee could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease – NovLink Home Mash I Latte lovers rejoice! Study reveals drinking coffee could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease We would like to say thanks to the author of this short article for this amazing content Latte lovers rejoice! Study reveals … Read more