{"id":475399,"date":"2025-12-27T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475399\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:53:18","slug":"garlic-mouthwash-a-storm-slows-time-and-more-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475399\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Mouthwash, a Storm Slows Time, And More! : ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in science: How a storm slowed down time in the US; why you might soon be using garlic mouthwash; frogs gift us a powerful new cancer<\/a> treatment; and much more!<\/p>\n

One Protein Is a Better Predictor of Heart Disease Than Cholesterol\"One(Christoph Burgstedt\/Science Photo Library\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A biomarker called C-reactive protein has been identified as a more accurate predictor of future heart disease than cholesterol alone.<\/p>\n

“Cholesterol is only part of the story; it is, in fact, the immune system that facilitates each step in the processes that drive heart disease,” the researchers write.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US Official Time Standard Slowed Down Last Week Following Massive Storm\"blue(Jupiterimages\/Photo Images\/Canva<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The US official time standard slowed by 4.8 microseconds, after a storm in Colorado cut off atomic clocks from measurement systems.<\/p>\n

That’s an unimaginably short period of time at the human scale: the blink of an eye can take an entire 572,000 microseconds. It’s certainly not enough to make a difference to your meeting schedule or school pickup time.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog\"Green(Mansur Sitorus\/iStock\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Gut bacteria from the Japanese tree frog has been found to be a powerful cancer drug, fully clearing tumors from mice after just one dose.<\/p>\n

The bacteria works in two ways: It attacks tumor tissue while also amping up the body’s immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils \u2013 key fighters in the immune system.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garlic Mouthwash Could Be The New Gold Standard. Here’s Why.\"Eating(Dimitri Otis\/Photodisc\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Garlic extract could be an effective antibacterial mouthwash rivaling the current gold standard, a new review study has found.<\/p>\n

Overall, the data showed that mouthwash based on garlic extract was indeed comparable to existing chlorhexidine-based mouthwash when it came to reducing bad bacteria in the mouth \u2013 in particular Mutans Streptococci (MS), the bug primarily responsible for tooth decay.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show\"Fusion(UKAEA, courtesy of EUROfusion<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Physicists have proposed a new way to look for theoretical dark matter<\/a> particles called axions: in interactions in nuclear fusion<\/a> facilities.<\/p>\n

Their mathematical analysis shows that axions or axion-like particles could also emerge in neutron-capture interactions, or from the release of energy as the neutron slows down after scattering off another particle.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Drug Stalls Alzheimer’s Development in Breakthrough Trial\"Illustration(Juan Gaertner\/Science Photo Library\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A new drug called NU-9 halted Alzheimer’s<\/a> before symptoms appeared in mice, by clearing precursor protein clumps from their brains.<\/p>\n

“If someone has a biomarker signaling Alzheimer’s disease, then they could start taking NU-9 before symptoms appear,” says neurobiologist William Klein.<\/p>\n

“There are a couple of early diagnostic blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease in development. The promise of better early diagnostics \u2013 combined with a drug that could stop the disease in its tracks \u2013 is the goal.”<\/p>\n

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