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Even Casual Use Of Ecstasy Could Cause Memory Problems
Recreational use of the club drug Ecstasy could cause memory problems, new research finds. The research is the first study of Ecstasy users before they begin to use the drug regularly, which helps...
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Vampire Stars Get Huge By Feeding Off Weaklings
A surprising number of massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy are part of close stellar duos, a new study finds, but most of these companion stars have turbulent relationships — with one "vampire star"...
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Office Workers Burn As Many Calories As Hunter-Gatherers
Researchers found that western men and women used strikingly similar amounts of energy each day compared with peers from a traditional community from the open savannah of Tanzania. Despite trekking...
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Women Just Beat Men In Worldwide IQ Tests For The First Time Ever
Who's smarter: men or women? Judging by IQ scores alone, the answer used to be men. In fact, the gap between men's and women's performance on IQ tests has long ignited questions about the test's...
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Actually, Pasta Is A Good Carb
Pasta has been unjustly vilified in recent years as a leading culprit in the rise of obesity around the globe. It has been attacked as a (gasp!) carbohydrate, a food type many health experts say we...
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Skin Bacteria Prep Our Bodies To Fight Off Foes
A massive number of microbes live in our guts, on our skin and elsewhere, all over our bodies. And these tiny companions aren't freeloaders — in fact, at least some of them may help keep us healthy,...
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A Japanese Satellite En Route To The Space Station Will Write In Morse Code...
The robotic Japanese cargo vessel now en route to the International Space Station is loaded with food, clothes, equipment — and a set of tiny amateur radio satellites, including one that will write...
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Most Heart Attack Victims Die Because People Don't Know How To Respond
If you're going to have a cardiac arrest, the best place to do it is in Seattle. That's because King County, Washington, boasts the highest out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates in the...
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CONFIRMED: Pop Music Is Too Loud And All Sounds The Same
LONDON (Reuters) - Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same. Researchers in Spain used a huge...
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All You Need Is The Internet To Build A Space Satellite
SEOUL (Reuters) - Years of rummaging through back-alley electronics stores will pay off later this year for a South Korean artist when he fulfills his dream of launching a homemade, basement-built...
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Your Poor Eating May Doom Your Kids (And Grandkids)
You are what you eat, the saying goes. And, according to two new genetic studies, you are what your mother, father, grandparents and great-grandparents ate, too. Diet, be it poor or healthy, can so...
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Sleeping Brains Look 'Awake' During Lucid Dreams
Lucid dreamers, people who can deliberately control their dreams during sleep, have long fascinated scientists. And now brain scans of those self-aware sleepers could offer insight into the seat of...
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NASA Has Prison Inmates Building Satellite Parts
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The NASA Ames Research Center is known for establishing innovative partnerships and Pete Worden, the former Air Force general who serves as the Center’s director, is known as a...
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The Insane Junk-Food Diets Of High-Endurance Olympians
Pizza, beer, and ice cream are actually staples for some elite athletes, who gorge themselves on mountains of unhealthy food to meet 6,000-calorie daily quotients. Most of us have to carefully count...
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Facebook's Carbon Footprint Is Incredibly Small
Facebook has, for the first time, revealed the carbon footprint of its operations and its more than 900m users' likes, photo albums and status updates. The data, published on Wednesday, shows that...
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STUDY: Presidents Need This Psychopathic Trait To Be Successful
No, but researchers were surprised to find that successful Presidents do share a few traits in common with psychopaths: Although psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is marked largely by maladaptive...
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Some People Are Naturally Protected Against Rabies
Some people living in a remote part of the Amazon jungle produce antibodies against the rabies virus, according to a new study. Protection against the highly deadly disease was previously thought to...
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Amazing 'Fire Rainbow' Image Captured In South Florida
So-called "fire rainbows" are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning. They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water...
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Global Warming Could Lead To Palm Trees In The Arctic
Palm trees could grow in the Antarctic, climate change scientists believe, after research uncovered evidence of similar plants there 55m years ago. Scientists have discovered plants similar to palm...
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Why We Are More Interested In Sex During The Summer
People in the U.S. are most interested in sex during the early summer, as well as in December and January, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the keywords that people in the U.S. used in...
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