In a paper appearing in the upcoming_ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry_, researchers outline the outcome. After depriving the rats of sleep for 24 hours, the scientists exposed them to “the aroma of roasted beans” and compared their genetic activity to a control group—they counted 17 genes behaving differently between the two groups. When the researchers compared the exhausted rats with their caffeine-deprived counterparts there was a similarly marked distinction, 13 genes directly related to stress reacted differently (in one case, even expressing a protein with a known stress-reducing antioxidant)....

Marie Kondo thanks her socks in her folding rituals for a reason: they do a lot of work for your feet, keeping them comfy while getting stepped on, bunched up and twisted while you plod around all day. If you’re off hiking, having good socks is essential, which is why these Darn Tough socks are worth every penny. They fit well (no slipping, no bunching, and no blisters), are naturally antimicrobial and antibacterial, and will keep your feet nice and cozy when you’re just resting in your tent....

Move over Monome: with just a fist-full of resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, and switches, the SN76477N can produce sounds that a microcontroller could only dream about. Featuring a super low-frequency oscillator, voltage-controlled oscillator, noise generator, and a mixer all on the same chip, the SN76477N can easily outpace most microcontroller-based synthesizers. Throw in a simple 9V power source and you’re talkin’ about a portable synth that can plug into any amp for some serious sound-makin’....

Ok, we’re kidding. But still, widespread panic during the early ’90s that a generation of children would grow up crack-addled was overblown, the New York Times reported last week. The Maternal Lifestyle Study, a longitudinal study of at-risk mothers and their babies that began at the peak of the crack epidemic, has concluded that differences between normal children and ones who were exposed to cocaine in utero are tiny and unpredictable, if they exist at all....

“Patients’ parents have been emailing me a lot,” says Hye Young Lee, a researcher at the University of Texas San Antonio whose work looks at alternative delivery methods for CRISPR. Lee says she normally gets a few emails a month from the parents of the patients she works with, but that the number of emails went up recently—in relation, she suspects, to the news of the CRISPR babies, which is creating the illusion that CRISPR and other gene editing techniques are ready for extensive use in humans....

Whether GM did or not use cadavers in this case, the history of expired humans in crash testing spans at least a half-century. Prior to the 1950s, carmakers assumed no serious accident could be made survivable, and thus didn’t bother to build components to any real safety spec. Such thinking started to shift during the late 1950s. That’s when Detroit’s Wayne State University initiated a program to determine a body’s tolerance for smashes....

These new Archaea were discovered in a sediment core extracted by a research ship. The scientists analyzing the sample have surmised that the organisms are able to survive off of methane released from hydrocarbons in the stone. The tremendous heat and pressure at that depth cooks the fossil fuel, breaking it down into compounds potentially useful to the Archaea. How they arrived in the bedrock is also something of a mystery; the two leading theories are that they were brought down by water currents or that they have been living in the rock since the days it was formed millions of years ago....

At least part of the lower price is due to the fact that, for the first time, the Leaf will be produced domestically, in a new LEAF production facility in Smyrna, TN. Ghosn demurred on a sales goal for 2013 model, but noted that it was fair to assume it would be “at least 20 percent higher” than 2012. Meanwhile, Global Vice President of Leaf Sales Billy Hayes was quick to remind what really draws buyers to electric vehicles like the LEAF....

Don’t despair, though. There are ways you can unearth that correspondence, even if you only half-remember what it was about or when it came in. You have different tools depending on your email app of choice, and if you use them well, you’ll be able to master your inbox in no time. Gmail Considering you can find just about anything online using Google, you’d expect that same power to help you find long-lost emails....

The Federal Aviation Administration has been using test dummies to study brace positions since 1967. While the recommended postures have changed a bit over the years, the underlying principle remains unchanged: It’s best to lean forward in advance of a plane crash so your head is close to the seat in front of you. To press yourself toward the back of that seat, the theory goes, reduces the risk of deadly “secondary impact,” wherein your head whips forward and slams into a hard surface....

Platelets, a type of blood cell, are a good disguise for drugs because blood cells naturally stick to cancer cells, so the drugs can go directly to tumors or destroy cancer cells in the blood stream before they colonize new organs. Plus, since the platelets are derived from the patient’s own body, the immune system doesn’t immediately try to destroy them, allowing the drugs to stay in the system for longer, the study authors tell Science Beta....

The DocaPole dusting kit will cover literally all of your dusting needs. Choose from the 12, 24, or 30-foot model to reach even the tallest cracks and crevices. Each kit includes three different attachments: a dome-shaped, cobweb duster that utilizes electrostatic action to trap and hold particles, a microfiber feather duster that can be used on the pole or on its own for more delicate surfaces or objects, and a chenille ceiling fan duster with a flexible stem for a heavy-duty clean....

Over the past year, PEN America documented 1,648 different book titles facing censorship challenges in across the US, with Texas leading the charge thanks to 801 bans across 22 districts. In total, almost 4 million students nationwide have seen books removed from their school library shelves, the majority of which feature LGBTQ+ or BIPOC authors and subject matter. “Many Americans may conceive of challenges to books in schools in terms of reactive parents, or those simply concerned after thumbing through a paperback in their child’s knapsack or hearing a surprising question about a novel raised by their child at the dinner table,” writes the report’s authors, Nadine Farid Johnson and Jonathan Friedman....

SAMSUNG 65-Inch Class OLED 4K S95B Series Quantum HDR TV $1,797 (was $2,997) Samsung doesn’t have quite as much clout as LG in the OLED game, but this high-end panel has everything you could want in a TV. That includes the inky black levels and the most up-to-date HDMI connections in order to support current gaming consoles. You also get Samsung’s powerful smart TV platform, which can absolve you from having to buy an external streaming box....

The damage the satellites inflict on astronomical research will vary by project and observatory. The celestial newcomers don’t pose an existential threat to the field, but dealing with them will likely become a significant part of how astronomy is done in the future. “This is a wakeup call for astronomers generally to start thinking about the mitigations,” says Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and author of the analysis....

This month, the first peer-reviewed, scientific study was published on the benefits of emotional support animals for those with serious mental illnesses, like chronic anxiety or depression. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Toledo, found that one year after adopting, participants saw a significant reduction in depression, anxiety, and loneliness. Unlike service animals, emotional support animals need no formal training or certification. Yet they are still formally recognized by healthcare professionals as therapeutically necessary for people with certain conditions, like anxiety, depresion, or addiction, that qualify as disabilities under the Fair Housing Act....

But earbuds are earbuds, and at their core, their main purpose is to generate high-quality audio for an enjoyable streaming experience. If you can do without the added bells and whistles, the Xpods Pro True Wireless Earbuds + Charging Case are a worthy alternative, and for a limited time, you can grab a pair on sale for $20 off with code XPOD20. The teal set is beautiful too. These next-generation earbuds from Naztech are engineered to produce better-sounding music and calls....

Chevrolet first teased the Blazer SS EV back in March of this year, and finally showed the world what the performance electric crossover would look like on June 13 when GM CEO Mary Barra tweeted a photo of it. While we don’t yet know the specifications of the vehicle—those will be unveiled in about a month—the car seems promising even without the details. General Motors, and by extension Chevrolet, has a wide variety of electric motors and electric battery stacks to choose from when building this machine, so expect to see at least a few variants....

We’ll be watching the keynote live, (starting at 10 a.m. on the west coast, and 1 p.m. on the east coast) and updating this post with all the crucial information. We’re also recording a special edition of the Last Week in Tech Podcast all about WWDC and the rest of this year’s big developers conferences Monday evening. For now, catch up on last year’s announcements with our recap. Opening statistics Apple loves to start off these presentations with some statistics and 2018 is no different....

Traditionally, scientists have to infer how a molecule’s structure changes in a reaction. “In chemistry you throw stuff into a flask and something else comes out, but you typically only get very indirect information about what you have,” lead researcher Felix Fischer, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of chemistry, says in a press release. “You have to deduce that by taking nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared or ultraviolet spectra. It is more like a puzzle, putting all the information together and then nailing down what the structure likely is....