Better diet quality is associated with decreased risks of cardiometabolic disease, cancer, and death. The development of healthy eating food indexes is becoming more and more important in a world overpopulated were food is vital …
Mindfulness in times of COVID-19 pandemic crisis: a way to lessen anxiety and depression
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only accounted for a substantial number of deaths all over the world but also deleterious mental health outcomes. Several studies [1,2] have recently highlighted the mental desease of the pandemic …
Birch trees remove microplastics from the soil
With the help of trees, microplastic-polluted soils could be remediated. A recente study [1] has shown that birch trees absorb microplastics through their roots during the growth phase. Good news, because soils are many times …
The Helichrysum Italicum: a crop to protect and encourage
It is told in the ancient Greece and in Roman Empire people braid Helichrysum branches to worship the divinities. Its name means “the gold sun” and everyone knows its medicine properties. Recently the Helichrysum italicum …
Coming back to the moon
It’s time to come back to the Moon. And it’s much more than a dream. NASA and many scientific agencies are often publishing report and news on the Artemis mission. But the most of the …
Eco-Friendly Glitter: new solutions for cosmetics from science
More-sustainable approaches to produce effect pigments are being intensively searched [1] for to replace inorganic and synthetic polymer components by a group of researchers of the University of Cambridge (Department of Chemistry, Department of Engineering, …