Business
Elon Musk’s Teslaquila Drink Faces Trademark Clashes with Mexico’s Tequila Industry
Flamboyant billionaire and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk could be headed for a trademark battle of Teslaquila Drink with Mexico’s tequila industry. In October, Musk announced a new brand of tequila named ‘Teslaquila’, vaguely tweeting it was ‘coming soon’ accompanying a visual approximation of Tesla logo above a red and white label and a caption stating ‘100% Pure De Agave’. However, agave-based drink’s industry opposed Musk’s efforts to trademark the alcoholic drink
Chemical
UTA Researchers Discovered a New and Efficient Way to Purify Ethylene
A new copper compound developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Arlington can be employed to purify ethylene. The researchers have also filed a provisional patent application for the same. Ethylene is widely used as raw material in the production of many industrial compounds and variety of plastics including PVC or polyethylene. Naturally, produced from crude oil, ethylene are obtained as mixture containing ethane. In manufacturing processes,
Healthcare
Scientists Made New Discoveries about Elimination Mechanisms of T cells
In a new study, researchers have found cellular mechanisms responsible for eliminating T cells that pose autoimmune dangers. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology reported that in the newly discovered mechanisms, aggressively developing thymocytes are made to commit suicide to prevent them from causing damage to the body, while maintaining the normally developing thymocytes that grow into T cells and act against infections as well as cancer. Although the
Lifestyle
Low-Carb Diet Help Burn More Amount of Calories, According to a New Study
In a recent study, published in British Medical Journal, it is revealed that low-carb diet help people burn more calories and keep their weight off. Most people who lose weight from dieting regains it within one or two years, as the body adapts by burning fewer calories and slowing metabolism. The study led by Boston Children’s Hospital in conjunction with Framingham State University, finds that eating food with low carbohydrate content
Technology
Researchers Developed a New Wireless System to Detect Food Contamination Using RFID Tags
Researchers at MIT Media Lab have created a simple wireless system to sense potential food contamination, using RFID tags on billions of products. As food safety incidents have been one of the major headlines worldwide for causing illness and death over the past two decades, the new system called RFIQ aims to bring food-safety detection to the general public. According to the researchers, a reader in RFIQ detects minute changes in
