If you’re looking to increase the amount of fat in your next workout, consider drinking coffee half an hour before you start – a new study suggests it can make a significant difference in fat burning, especially the day after. Researchers have found that 3 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram …
Read More »Signs of ancient meteors were water on Mars before there was life on Earth
We know that Mars was once wetter than it is now, but questions about when water formed and evaporated are more difficult to answer. Now a new study suggests that there was water on the Red Planet about 4.4 billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It is based …
Read More »Elusive metal-eating bacteria predicted more than a century ago discovered in a laboratory accident
When microbiologist Jared Leadbeater returned to his office for the first time in months after a work trip, he found something strange. A cream-colored manganese carbonate compound (MnCO3), which coated the glassware he had left in his sink, had gone dark. Something had stolen some of his electrons. “I thought, …
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