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10 Strangest Science Stories Of The Year
Ah, science. Sure, it does plenty of amazing things for society: finding treatments for cancer, putting people in space.But along the way, scientists also discover some truly bizarre things about the...
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7 New Things That Health Experts Have Told Us To Fear This Year
1. Being rich makes you more likely to lie, cheat, and steal. A series of experiments conducted on volunteers with annual incomes ranging between $16,000 and $150,000 found that the wealthiest were...
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To Stick To Your New Year's Resolutions Avoid Talking About Them
As I read the funny pages this morning in the paper, I noticed a running joke: no one keeps their New Year’s resolutions.There are a million different personal and psychological reasons for this — but...
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How Much Pain You Can Handle Is Determined By Your Genes
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.Scientists have identified genes that interact with one another to regulate pain in...
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The Oldest Nobel Prize Winner Died This Weekend At 103
What may have been Rita Levi-Montalcini’s last paper was published almost a year ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.By no means a retrospective of a career that produced a Nobel...
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Technology Has Created A Fear Of Silence
This article was originally featured on The Conversation and has been re-printed under the Creative Commons license. “When there is no noise in my room it scares me,” emails one of my undergraduate...
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Alex Wild's Best Bug Pictures Of 2012
Since I’m asking everyone else to pony up a selection of their best science & nature photos of the year, I figure it’s only fair I participate. Here are 10 images I consider my personal favorites...
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Giant Pandas May Be A Source Of A New, Natural Anti-Superbug Antibiotic
Giant Pandas may be a rich source of powerful new antibiotic drugs, scientists have discovered.Their endangered status and distinctive, cuddly appearance have turned them into the poster-children of...
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Letting Out Your Anger Could Help You Live Longer
A new study shows that expressing anger is good for your health.Researchers at the University of Jena, in Germany, found that getting your anger out and being hot-tempered is actually helpful in...
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Neurologist Explains What A Blood Clot In Hillary Clinton's Brain Means
Richard C. Senelick, MD, is a neurologist who serves as medical director of the Rehabilitation Institute of San Antonio. He is also editor in chief of HealthSouth Press.We see it all the time. Someone...
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Science Shows Feeling Grateful Can Improve Your Life
As the new year begins, good things, however small, are happening.Someone's loved one got a new job in San Francisco. In Charlottesville, a canceled reservation allowed someone else to get a seat on a...
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Here's Why You Probably Shouldn't Buy Your Toddler That iPad
If there’s one toy guaranteed to captivate toddlers this holiday season, it’s the iPad, notes Rachel Saslow in the Washington Post:“What’s more appealing to a tot than blinking lights, fun sounds and...
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The Truth About Five Common Natural Remedies
For centuries, people have turned to natural remedies to fight common ailments such as colds, upset stomachs and toothaches.And the trend continues.Nearly 4 out of 10 adults have used some form of...
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Bottled Water Is More Dangerous Than Tap Water
Bottled water costs substantially more than what comes from the tap but is not healthier for consumers, a study has suggested.Researchers found the bottled variety is subject to far less-stringent...
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The US And New Zealand Secretly Tested The First Tsunami Bomb
It's not often that news of a massive military breakthrough comes out of New Zealand, but local author Ray Waru has changed that for good.Waru wrote in his new book "Secrets and Treasures" that the...
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The Sun Rang In The New Year With A Four-Hour Eruption
As people around the world rang in the New Year to celebrate Earth's latest trip around the sun Monday night, our closest star marked the occasion with some fireworks of its own — a dazzling solar...
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Fructose May Lead To Overeating
This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to...
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Girls Down Their Drinks Faster Than Guys
Who's partied the hardest this New Year's?In some places, it may have been the ladies.Male university students in Spain down more booze overall than their female counterparts, but in drinks-per-hour,...
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The Problem With The 'Overweight People Live Longer' Study
The counterintuitive findings that people who are overweight live longer, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, couldn't have been more perfectly timed, coming as it has...
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Weather Data Could Predict The Next Flu Epidemic
Only a 10 percent chance of showers today, but a 70 percent chance of flu next month.That's the kind of forecasting health scientists are trying to move toward, as they increasingly include weather...
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