Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Taste the ‘sustainable’ lab-grown coffee

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Helsinki: Latte drinkers may in the future be sipping on java sourced from a petri dish rather than a plantation, say scientists behind a new technique to grow what they hope to be sustainable coffee in a lab. “It’s really coffee, because there is nothing else than coffee material in the product,” Heiko Rischer tells … Read more

Parkinson’s disease: A vibration device may aid resting tremors

Parkinson's disease: A vibration device may aid with resting tremors

David Putrino, a physiotherapist, was working on a vibration device to assist deaf people to experience live music when a friend suggested that the same technology may help patients with Parkinson’s disease stop tremors. Putrino, the head of rehabilitation innovation at New YorkCity’s Mount Sinai Health System, was interested. The new gadget was placed on the … Read more