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Science BBC World, @bbc_ciencia19 September 2014image source, Thinkstockcaption, A polysaccharide gel gives bananas slippery properties.A foot slipping on a banana peel and... thump and thump.This famous comedy image has gained recognition as an object of scientific study.image source, Thinkstockcaption, Have you ever slipped by stepping on a banana peel?But not just any one, but this year's IgNobel Prize.These mocking prizes, which have become almost as famous as the original Nobels, announced their winners Thursday at a ceremony at Harvard University.The Japanese team led by researcher Kiyoshi Mabuchi, from the University of Kitasato, won the physics prize for measuring the friction…

A team of American scientists has developed an experimental drug that promises to be a "true revolution" in contraceptive methods for men. It is a compound that is taken between 30 minutes and an hour before having sexual intercourse and what it achieves 'block' sperm for several hours in order to avoid pregnancy. The treatment has already been successfully tested in mice and, according to its creators, paves the way for create a male birth control pill. The drug is based on a cell signaling protein called soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC). Previous studies had already pointed out that the suppression…

Space transport will bring two Russian and one NASA astronauts back to Earth Spaceship Soyuz MS-23 with no crew on board, which will serve to bring two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut back to Earth instead of the damaged Soyuz MS-22, today docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft automatically locked onto the Russian segment of the orbital platform at 04:01 Moscow time (01:01 GMT) as scheduled. The Soyuz MS-23 will return to Earth next September the Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitri Petelin, and the American astronaut of Salvadoran origin Frank Rubio, who have been on the…

A man from Düsseldorf, now 53 years old and who suffered from leukemia, has been in remission for four years with the virus Science has confirmed the third hiv cure case in the world after a stem cell transplant. after the berlin patient (2008) and the London patient (2019), now comes the Düsseldorf patient. Although the process by which they have been cured of HIV is complex and cannot be applied to all people with the infection, this new medical milestone shows that researchers are getting closer to curing HIV. 'Natural medicine' just posted a study of the IciStem consortium,…