Climate change. Pollution. Is a good time for a good. Go at africa people and projects that are changing the government for the better. Good. W. Hello and welcome to a new edition of tomorrow today the science show on d w. Coming up on the program. Fresh brewed coffee is it healthy or not so. Our skin is literally crawling with millions of minute creatures. And our water is laced with traces of medication how can it be removed. These onto your average doodles or scribbles on their hieroglyphs the Writing System used in Ancient Egypt this symbol a vulture corresponds to the letter eight this will present the letter only. The other symbols represent whole words like water. Or god. Not everything has been decided in the ancient texts that have been found to date is getting easier to do with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Lives pyramids and pharaohs are all part of the Assassins Creed Origins Video Game Developers added an educational feature based on authentic Ancient Egyptian sources. Canadian historian Maxine Deal On helped develop the educational concept the Discovery Tour could prove very useful for schools and museums. Normally we wait we make a game for entertainment for fun and we do discrepancies with history we recreate the narrative we create the story this time around were used the same environment but its not about a conflict anymore its not about the narrative its really more about taking the time to explore. After a while developers realize that some of the hieroglyphs Ancient Egyptian writing can be extremely difficult to decode that gave them an idea for a Research Project which google wanted to support. Realize that theres a Technique Potential to decipher billiard with it to make it more accessible it takes years and years for someone to learn how your glyphs that were with over them where as when we use a computer and the human we can do it easier on. The computer uses artificial intelligence the computerized program learns to recognize and translate hieroglyphs the Hieroglyph Project needs a vast quantities of data so egyptologists worldwide are using an open Source Software to upload and share images of ancient inscriptions to the platform. So the first looking across it will be extracting a card with a promise from a wide variety of original sources before working on the tools and algorithms that come to recognize in the darkness automatically then we can analyze existing translations matching hard sequences to unlock them meaning. That could be a boon for tonio sebastian rishta a professor of egypt ology at the Free University in berlin. His team has been working on an electronic dictionary of an Ancient Egyptian for some thirty years its still unfinished as hieroglyphs are far more complex than letters in a man. An alphabet. Unlike our abstract letters or pictorial so you could draw them like tiny logos and make variations. You could place this or that into the hands of these little figures and that leads to the Essential Problem where the symbols are ambivalent even just. There are several variations of the same symbol. As. The study of egyptology lacks enough funding to regularly work with Artificial Intelligence welcome the Game Developers initiative but a usable Computer Translation from hieroglyphs is still a long way off. With. The text. Just as you could hardly translate korean text into german with todays computers. You can imagine how difficult it would be in to achieve a grammatically and linguistically correct translation from a string of hieroglyphics symbols into any modern language. Scientists and gamers are working together to solve the riddles of Ancient Egypt the databases are growing fast as egyptologists contribute decrypted translations to the new digital hieroglyph library. The way the Ancient Egyptians wrote their hire adrift in rows columns that can be read from left to rice bowl for the right to left and advantage for both right and left handed scribes guess that web video of the week. Whether youre left or right handed has nothing to do with your hands but with the part of the brain that controls fine motor skills. If youre right handed its mainly the left top of the brain. Left hand as its the right stuff. Left hand is usually prefer the left side in other movements to. For example when picking. Much out. Or cutting. Most people only realize their preference once thank you lloyd with someone else go ahead give it a try. Brewing coffee was once quite a messy affair millys have been found that annoying she was a housewife who lived in dresden at the end of the Nineteenth Century and she loves coffee but she hated the pesky grounds that stuck to her tongue. Then she had no idea she punched holes in a pot with a nail put in a piece of Plotting Paper on the Coffee Filter was invented. After applying for a page and she started a filter producing company. A simple process first the filter then Ground Coffee beans and hot water and outcomes delicious coffee free from those insufferable grounds. Coffee has often been the subject of scientific studies a recent one caused you far a cad lines the authors say the Beverage Isnt Real Panacea according to the analysis regular consumption supposedly lowers the risk of Heart Attack Stroke and even cancer. Although there isnt solid proof yet the study says indicators on strong. Can be said is that car for years and harmful and that it really does minimize risks associated with Cardiovascular Disease stroke and heart attacks. So for me personally saying that coffee can help prevent someone from having a heart attack or getting no logical disease or cancer thats going too far. Overall what is true is that the study has shown for the first time that affects also verifiable effects could exist. Nutrition expert questions ina is a big fan of the beverage both privately and professionally he recommends coffee to patients with diseases of the liver. Theres no disputing that Coffee Consumption has a strong protective effect when it comes to Liver Disease not just in terms of helping to reduce inflammation but also in hindering Liver Fibrosis pathological changes to its connective tissue. For patients who have to actually live a disease not caused by excessive Alcohol Consumption you know recommends up to six cups of coffee a day he says one compound in particular plays a key role. In uncover the caffeine in coffee or first specific cell types in the liver by inhibiting their activity. And in the end that helps forestall Liver Fibrosis and that in turn stops the advance of Liver Failure or cirrhosis. Researches at the university of kaiser is low and they and that in turn could be associated with prevention of degenerative diseases like cancer or alzheimers. In that weeks study that researches looked at d. N. A. Isolated from the blood of eighty four men half of the Test Subjects strike three large cups of black coffee a day the other half drank the same amount of water. In the end the team examined d. N. A. Samples from both groups. This is the d. N. A. From two cells on the left hand side is the damage d. N. A. Is pretty diffuse thats because these fine brake. When the molecules create this halo effect live on the right is a cell with little or no damage to the d. N. A. We were able to show that four weeks of Coffee Consumption in our Test Subjects reduced this minor damage. To. The way the coffee is prepared has an impact on this effect Espresso Beans a roasted longer than those for drip coffee that reduces the amount of acid in the concentrated shot making it easier on the stomach but filtered coffee contains less of the compounds caffe a stolen car will two substances that have a negative effect on Cholesterol Levels in the blood they dont pass through the filter so for those who have high Cholesterol Levels filter coffee is the better choice. Because of it stimulating effect cardiologists used to warn Heart Patients to stay away from coughing but theyve now changed their minds. And you mentioned some people have Heart Palpitations after two carbs or higher Blood Pressure those patients should stop with one. But if you like to drink up to five cups a day and tolerate it well then from a medical Point Of View there is no reason to stop. Exceptions to that rule are pregnant women all those who show symptoms of bone loss as well as patients with cardiac arrhythmia. The study shows that Drinking Coffee could have negative affects in such cases there are more than a thousand compounds in Coffee Research is still trying to figure out exactly which arent good for you you get used to exactly so shall we have to look and see whether we can enrich particular substances and the beans and whether well be able to isolate them for possible uses medications thats the Direction Research is taking. It is essential to a future. Thats entailed then go ahead and treat yourself to a tasty cup of java. Whether its good for us or not but one thing coffee does have is a distinct aroma. How about a little smell test is it when you find nice or unpleasant and what about fish or lemons. Germans tend to associate a sense of lemons with kenyan this but for Spaniards Chlorine smells fresh blood russians feeling left of like that smells clean thats from poland wants to know more about what the no snow. Why do we experience some smells as pleasant and others much less so. Lavender what a wonderful scent. The process of smelling itself is very complex after inhaling the said molecules bind to specific sites on our factory receptors there are Three Hundred Fifty different kinds each is specialized for certain smells. The Odor Information reaches the long term memory and has strong connections to emotional centers. Whether or not wed like a scent mainly depends on the context in which we first smelled it. We First Experience many smells when were very young even while still in the womb or later as an infant. By the way smelling is also important for Flavor Perceptions ninety percent of them arise not on the tongue but by all Factory Signals whether or not truffles taste good largely depends on whether we like the aroma. Sense awaken memory and can put us in a particular mood thats why the Purview Ministry is so profitable apart from that how we were raised and social conventions also play a role. Takes what for example it smells bad at least thats what weve been taught thats why some go to Great Lengths to mask it. Because it is right right. Even if they. Do have a Science Question that youve always wanted answered it were happy to help out and send it to us as a Video Text Ovoid smell we all saw it on the show will send you a little surprise as a thank you cannot just ask. Youll find us online at the d. W. Dot com slash science and of course on twitter and facebook so get in touch. Did you know that more organisms live on your skin than they are people on earth does that make your skin crawl it shouldnt we need that epidemic. Minute might for example they live on and in our Hair Follicles their favorite meal see them but when this monogamy is out of balance you might find yourself with an edge to scratch. It makes sense to take good care of your skin because its far more complex than it looks the average person has almost five million haris all over their body a miniature forest. And habited by a host of tiny organisms. Among them Bacteria Viruses fun guy and months its a microscopic zoo. And if all its inhabitants are in equilibrium your skin does just fine. But when they arent you can develop conditions like any topic dermatitis. Reuben heritable has had Skin Problems all his life at least in part due to imbalances in his micro biota with help from the latest research he hopes his skin will soon be able to heal itself alone claims the inflammations i get can hurt quite a lot. As. Dermatologists painter she is convinced that the distribution of microorganisms on the skin plays a central role and thats how. You carry a range of microorganisms some are good for the skin for instance they can protected by renewing its lip at layer but there are also microorganisms that are harmful that can cause infections or as is the case with a topic dermatitis would make them worse. So what makes microorganisms trigger a topic dermatitis and research is that a Swiss Alpine Clinic in the town of davos are trying to find out theyre carrying out a joint study with environmental Medicine Specialist cloudy a title hoffman from an Oxford University in germany. Theres a lot going on in the field of a talk that demi titus. The dermatologist takes skin swabs she wants to use the samples to measure whats called the Skin Microbiome by identifying every species of microbe that lives on the patients inflamed skin with. Our work current. The focus is on the micro biome weve discovered that its not an equilibrium in patients with a topic damage titus and other chronic Skin Diseases theyre one microbe called stuff like caucus oreos predominates and other species a fewer and further between. The outer surface of the human body is a biosphere in its own right around One Hundred Billion Bacteria Viruses fungal and mites live on each and every one of us together with microbes that live and find us they make up the micro biome. A babys first exposure to microbes occurs during birth when it comes into contact with his mothers vashon all flora thats why in individuals microbiome is similar to that of other family members. But similar does not mean identical. Microbiologists are unique just like fingerprints. And throughout our lives the microbiome constantly interacts with the environment we pass our microbes along to people and animals and receive players in return for healthy microbiome researchers believe the stable because its diverse. Cloudier title hoffman is now trying to determine who can handle exact microbial makeup. Thats no easy task because there is no way to distinguish between species under a microscope. Each Bacteria Virus or fungus asked to be identified genetically through d. N. A. Testing. Its a laborious process. We all know the gene data looks confusing if you dont know how to read it in your view but ruben her thoughts results are clear cut. As we hear them what you can see here is that our patient with syria. Its a topic dermatitis has a lot of stuff we love caucus oreos on his skin this red bar here thats it in fact that for compare this to results from a healthy subject the picture there is much more colorful and thats how it should be health is closely tied to microbial diversity. In an attempt to influence the micro biome the dermatologist applies a special cream to a test area she wants to encourage the growth of microorganisms that will help supplant the overly dominant Staphylococcus Aureus its an approach that could spark a revolution and allergy therapy when your body how if we can make an improvement here then well finally have acquired some tools with which we could help many patients with the haitian. Reuben harrell is hopeful the treatment will work. If it does he might soon have a cream to change his skin micro biome for the better. Hopefully the cream will work. But all medications that we run into our skin eventually end up in our head and ultimately in the side of us that al water could soon be clear and clean in. A romantic little river in southern germany. Clarified water from a nearby Sewage Treatment plant feeds into it it seems clean but looks can be deceiving that water still contains residues from drugs like painkillers antibiotics and Blood Pressure medication many rivers in germany now arm and office are concerned about Drug Residues. In the can and should in being a stickler for not we can prove with our own studies that even at low concentrations of an act has an effect on organisms in the water trout for instance. Because of changes in their kills and in the kidneys and were also focusing on a former for example Birth Control pills which in extreme cases they can lead to the feminization of organisms so for preventive reasons we dont want these substances and Drinking Water because. Thats why a team of environmental scientist taking part in a Pilot Project at a big varian Sewage Treatment plant is now trying to filter Drug Residues out of waste water its a real challenge because medicines dont break down easily. By made the comment of corn to be effective medications have to fulfill certain criteria they must be stable but resistance they need to have a long shelf life and reach certain parts of the body where theyre needed so they have to remain stable during and sematic reactions. That stability. She is also the reason why the body doesnt completely absorbed medications so a proportion of the medications you take are eliminated by a urine. Up to seventy percent of the dicho Fanatic You Swallow is excrete again residue from creams and gels is also rinsed away in the shower bath and ends up in the waste water. The Bavarian Researches have built a reactor that can break down stable Drug Residues in its wastewater is pulsed with ozone the process is already used to kill. But it also breaks down Drug Residues into their constituent parts. These samples of waste water that have been treated with ozone illustrate how well it works that carefully analyzed by there are no cry from his colleagues at the regional Environment Office they conduct tests for example in a comparison untreated samples turned Reddish Orange Samples treated with ozone remain clear. But in all exhibit when it comes to hormones were very satisfied after ozone nation there are practically undetectible but with other medications the situation isnt quite as rosy we have some good rates of degradation over ninety percent for example with back with a knock on average were at about eighty five percent but thats not quite good enough since some of these medications like Blood Pressure drugs are not completely broken down by ozone nation another aspect is that the process of degradation could create problematic transformation products. So otoh no alone isnt sufficient thats why in an additional treatment step the bavarian team is also testing two different Filter Systems the first employed sound bacteria. The second uses Activated Carbon granules. In early trials it was much more effective thats because the compounds left over after the nation and here readily to their uneven surface but the system has a drawback after two years at the latest the Activated Carbon particles are covered completely they cant absorb any more so the filters have to be swapped out and cleaned which is complicated and expensive. Thats why the researchers have high hopes for a new Activated Carbon Process that harnesses nature. And whats special about this granulated Activated Carbon is that when this carbon is exhausted completely fall a bio film forms on its surface and the microorganisms in this biofilm to grade the residues biologically in other words this Activated Carbon has an advantage it can clean itself that of course also brings an economic advantage because we can leave the carbon in the filter for longer and that in turn lowers Operating Costs significantly. In twenty seventeen global sales of medications it around Seven Hundred Ninety Billion dollars thats One Hundred Fifty Billion more than a decade before the race is on to find economical ways to sterilize water and remove Drug Residues but these researches have to be patient it can take about a year for a biofilm to form an Activated Carbon only then will they know whether the process could also work in large treatment plants. How often do you say yes when you really mean no. It happens a lot to all of us we all lie every day several times and that has massive consequences for our health but can we change our behavior. More in this next week on tomorrow or today. The be. Above the. Law. The law. On the bones. Of the. Law. More. Scars cover on forget women in russia have to live with violence sexism and oppression the meaning and violence is normal in russia. Where putin is petri arche moves to Womens Rights were already gaining traction a hundred years ago. 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