According to new research, the tasty beverage provides a double-whammy of health benefits: chocolate may slow cancer growth, and java could help you live longer. The good news about chocolate comes from scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center, who found that a synthetic chemical that is similar to a compound present in cocoa beans slows the growth of colon cancer by 50 percent. Not only did it retard growth, it damaged most of the colon cancer cells....

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However, excitement and joy reigned supreme when the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft closely encountered the Red Planet’s larger moon. The flyby in September allowed the scientists to test one of the 19-year-old spacecraft’s newest tools. Aboard the Mars Express is the MARSIS instrument, which was originally designed to study Mars’ internal structure. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the University of Rome, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) built it so that it would be used more than 155 miles away from the surface of Mars, or the typical distance between the Red Planet’s surface and the spacecraft....

Judging from the commentary, the surge in interest for homemade sunscreens is because some people fear the chemicals in shop-bought sunscreens and believe that natural products mixed at home will be better at protecting them from the sun’s harmful rays. The fear originates from recent news that some sunscreen ingredients, such as oxybenzone and octinoxate, seem to disrupt hormones. And using sunscreens that contain these ingredients may lead to them accumulating in the body at concentrations that exceed the safety threshold established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....

The world, called MolCraft, allows students to explore some of life’s most essential proteins in a novel way. From a central hall, players are teleported to 3D renderings of proteins that show the molecules’ structure as well as their atoms and chemical bonds, just like a traditional ball-and-stick model. But in MolCraft, you can zip around the proteins, discovering their internal contents and architecture accompanied by explanations about their function....

American power plants, factories, farms, and homes used a total of 355 billion gallons of fresh and salt water a day in 2010. If you divide that amount by the U.S. population in 2010, it comes out to 1,150 gallons per person, per day. The last time the country used so little water was before 1970. The U.S. Geological Survey credits advancements in the designs of power plants, factories, and farms’ irrigation systems for the water-use drop....

Project Mercury astronaut Walter Schirra actually owned a Hasselblad 500C and suggested that NASA and Hasselblad work together to document the missions to space. To prepare the cameras for the journey, Hasselblad had to remove a number of elements to reduce the overall weight of the camera, including the leather covering, auxiliary shutter, reflex mirror, and the viewfinder. The custom film magazine held enough film for 70 frames instead of the normal 12....

That’s the raison d’etre of the 2020 Aston Martin Vantage AMR. It is a new version of the famed British marque’s hot rod Vantage, introduced in 2018, that includes a manual transmission in place of the usual paddle-shifted automatic. The original car proved its mettle when we tested it at Portugal’s Portimao circuit on its debut, and it left no question as to the effectiveness of an automatic gearbox in a sports car turning laps around a racetrack....

But not all rough-and-ready sustenance gets the job done. Ideally, your food will fit three criteria: It must taste good, cook fast, and not require too much precious stove fuel. That’s why freezer-bag cooking works so well on the trail. I discovered the brilliance of this method at age 18, while taking an overnight trek with my aunt. For the previous 10 years, ever since my first hiking trip with my dad, I followed my father’s food preferences....

At the time insulin was developed into a life-saving serum, the world was still recovering from The Great War’s 40 million casualties, silent movies were the rage, Ford’s Model T topped auto sales, and 22 of 100,000 New Yorkers were dying of diabetes. The disease kills the pancreas’s insulin-producing islet cells, or Islands of Langerhans. Also in 1920s America, medicine—the kind taught in universities and practiced in cloistered institutions—was the almost exclusive province of wealthy white men....

Even if you’re not gunning for an Oscar, you’ll appreciate the extra resolution. In editing, you can crop out half of a scene and still have enough pixels to fill an HD screen. The Scarlet, which will be priced at about $3,000, should capture cleaner images too, thanks to its 58-square-millimeter video sensor, which dwarfs the average 17-square-millimeter chips in consumer models and matches pricier pro rigs. In place of the heavy MPEG compression that consumer cams use to squeeze more footage onto tapes or DVDs, Scarlet employs high-quality “wavelet” compression—used for films shown in digital cinemas—and records video to a pair of compact flash cards that you can interchange for continuous shooting....

We had a chance to check the camera out prior to its announcement during a photowalk in New York City. These are our first impressions of this new premium compact. Design and feel The Fujifilm X100V is designed to be lightweight and compact, and—like the cameras that have come before it—the X100V delivers here. The camera only weighs 1.05 lbs with the memory card and battery. The top and bottom plates are milled from single pieces of aluminum, which gives the camera an impeccably clean edge....

Excessive lead exposure can lead to kidney problems, reduced IQ or learning disabilities, growth impairments, and nerve disorders. Acute poisoning may result in seizures and death. The only upside of environmental lead is that unlike, say, emissions of CO2, it may be on the wane. Many countries have already phased out leaded gasoline, and others are soon to follow. Old cathode ray tubes were full of lead, but we’re moving away from those as well....

“What’s the problem?” she shouted, while I tried to wriggle free from the granite that had me pinned, in a tunnel insultingly named Fat Man’s Misery. At the Polar Caves, as the property is known, we spent the better part of an hour shimmying between granite boulders and limestone rocks. “What’s the difference between granite and limestone?” I asked. “Is this a joke?” my daughter wanted to know. “No, a geology lesson....

From Motherboard: As is so often the case, the easiest way into a secure system is by asking someone for the key. This is the same tactic that a teen hacker claims to have used to gain access to CIA chief John Brennan’s personal email. And it’s fairly similar to “spearphising” attacks, where emails with links to download malicious software are sent to specific people inside a network, in the hopes that they’ll open the email, follow the link, and compromise the system....

But is this an option for which you’ll ante up a couple grand next year? Read on past the jump for our hands-on experiences and video footage. Theory Like all hybrids, the Silverado recovers energy during braking and coasting, storing it in a 300V bank of NiMH batteries located under the rear seat. Instead of idling when you stop at a light, the truck shuts down the engine, powering accessories like the a/c compressor and power steering with electric motors....

Logan Cyrus, a freelancer based in Charlotte, North Carolina who often shoots for AFP, learned that he would be covering Florence on September 8. He started shooting on September 10, four days before the storm made landfall to document the preparations. His end date was ambiguous. “You have so many variables to take into consideration when prepping for a natural disaster,” Cyrus said via email. “Other assignments you typically have an end date....

If you’re irritated by Twitter or depressed by Facebook, you can avoid social media for limited periods of time. But when you’re ready to say goodbye for good, the next step will be to delete those apps from your phone and shut down your accounts entirely. Here’s how to do it, one network at a time. Next, make sure you’re deleting your account for the right reasons. If you’re ready to bid farewell to the whirlwind of social media for the sake of time or mental health, that’s fine....

On its own, each part could be mistaken for a UFO. And indeed, they are destined for a life beyond Earth: Next year, they will shoot to orbit as part of a larger satellite called the Weather System Follow-on–Microwave (or WSF-M). The dish—a sophisticated antenna—will catch faint microwaves emitted by Earth, whose undulating characteristics reveal weather conditions below. A yellow crane looms over the team, and photons from fluorescent lights bathe the whole room in white....