Mother's level of education has impact on depression in her children

Mother's level of education has impact on depression in her children: Children of women who did not finish high school were twice as likely to experience a major episode of depression in early adulthood as children whose mothers obtained a high school diploma.

Magnetic monopoles erase data: Efficient and long-lived storage of information in magnetic vortices

Magnetic monopoles erase data: Efficient and long-lived storage of information in magnetic vortices: A physical particle postulated 80 years ago, could provide a decisive step toward the realization of novel, highly efficient data storage devices. Scientists have found that with magnetic monopoles in magnetic vortices, called skyrmions, information can be written and erased.

Artificial magnetic monopoles discovered

Artificial magnetic monopoles discovered: Scientists have managed to create artificial magnetic monopoles. To do this, they merged tiny magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions. At the point of merging, the physicists were able to create a monopole, which has similar characteristics to a fundamental particle postulated by Paul Dirac in 1931. In addition to fundamental research, the monopoles may also have application potential.

With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength

With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength: beaverdownunder writes "From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 'Japan's peak whaling body has launched a new campaign to promote whale meat as a nutritious food that enhances physical strength and reduces fatigue. With about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan, the country's Institute for Cetacean Research has decided to launch a new campaign to promote the by-product of its so-called scientific whaling program. Once popular in school lunches, younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale."

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Link between sodium, calcium and heartbeat illuminated

Link between sodium, calcium and heartbeat illuminated: Researchers have revealed, for the first time, one of the molecular mechanisms that regulates the beating of heart cells by controlling the movement of sodium in out of the cells -- and what calcium has to do with it.