There’s some promising news on nuclear clean-ups coming out of the University of Western Australia and it has to do with your morning breakfast cereal. Well, sort of.
It turns out that a variety of oat may be a newly discovered key to removing strontium from radioactive contaminated soil after a nuclear accident such as Fukushima.
Read MoreNew research out of the UK’s University of Birmingham points to whether or not an athlete will perform best actually depends on the time of the day the physical activity occurs. Exercise, it seems, is not worth jumping out of bed for at the crack of dawn.
According to the study, published in the recent issue of the journal Current Biology, a body’s internal clock—circadian rhythms—can strongly dictate the quality of one’s performance ability.
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