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That Nightcap Won't Improve Your Sleep
Having a few drinks may help you fall asleep, but that deep slumber continues for only part of the night. After that point, getting shut-eye becomes more difficult, according to a new...
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The Sounds The Beatboxers Make Are Similar To African Tribal Clicks
Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that one might never expect to come from the human body is the specialty of the artists known as beatboxers.Now scientists have used scanners...
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Four In 10 Girls Will Live To 100
Four in 10 girls born today is expected to live to 100, according to a respected health economist writing in the online edition of the British Medical Journal.John Appleby, chief economist at the...
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Tar Sand Mining And The Keystone XL Pipeline Have A Huge Impact On Future...
James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988.The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he's been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most...
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Male Scientists Are More Likely To Commit Fraud Than Females
A few weeks back I blogged about a paper by Arturo Casadevall, Ferric Fang and others from the University of Washington and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that investigated retractions in...
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London Has Also Spent Time Engulfed In Deadly Smog
Today I found out about a shocking weather incident that happened in London not very long ago.In December of 1952, the city of London experienced a 5-day bout of “fog” that killed at least 4,000 people...
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Serial Multitaskers Are Terrible At Multitasking
Workers who boast that they can multitask are actually the worst at doing several things at once and at focusing on single jobs, according to a new study.Serial multitaskers end juggling two activities...
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How The Lefties Become Leaders, Despite The Stigma
Yes, that's right, you're about to read yet more lefty stuff in the Guardian.Barack Obama's inauguration this week should again revive hope among a minority group.This group of people, simply because...
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Dogs Became Man's Best Friend By Developing A Taste For Starch
They work with us, play with us and comfort us when we’re down.Archaeological evidence indicates that dogs have had a close bond with humans for millennia.But exactly why and how they evolved from...
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Dung Beetles Have Their Feet On Poop But Their Eyes On The Stars
The humble dung beetle makes its living rolling big balls of excrement to feed its offspring and itself.But this lowly occupation doesn’t mean the insect doesn’t have its eye on the skies—even when the...
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Even The Biggest Dinosaurs Had Teeny Tiny Brains
An advanced member of the largest group of dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth still had a relatively puny brain, researchers say.The scientists analyzed the skull of 70-million-year-old fossils of the...
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Mining Asteroids Could Make 'Warp Drive' Possible
Exploiting the many resources of our solar system may enable humanity to venture beyond its confines for the first time, and blaze a trail to other stars.Building a spaceship that can travel to other...
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How Evolution Led Us To Be Nearsighted, Lactose Intolerant And Allergic
Evolution has revolutionized our modern scientific understanding of natural history and how our bodies came to be.Yet evolutionary insights regarding health and disease are not typically emphasized...
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The US Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need To Drink
Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The Mexican effort challenges a key tenet of U.S. clean water policy: that water far...
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IBM Says It Has Created A Gel That Can Kill Superbugs
Researchers from computer firm IBM say they have invented a new non-toxic gel that can kill deadly drug-resistant bacteria by cutting through the sludge that shelters them and attacking the germ’s cell...
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Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Is On A Cosmic Crash Course
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the famed constellation Orion is on a collision course with a strange wall of interstellar dust, with the clock ticking down to a cataclysmic cosmic smashup in...
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British Health Official Says Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases Pose An...
Britain's most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major...
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Japan's Newest Spy Cameras In Space Give Them Global Coverage
Japan on Sunday launched two satellites to strengthen its surveillance capabilities, including keeping a closer eye on North Korea which has vowed to stage another nuclear test.One of them was a...
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Court Rules That Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer Even Though Scientists Say No
A landmark court case has ruled there is a link between using a mobile phone and brain tumours, paving the way for a flood of legal actions.Innocente Marcolini, 60, an Italian businessman, fell ill...
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Iran Successfully Sends Monkey Into Space
Iran on Monday successfully sent a monkey into orbit, paving the way for a manned space flight, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state television.Arabic-language channel Al-Alam and other Iranian...
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