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Therapy May Change Your Personality
Some doctors balk at the idea of trying to change a patient's personality, but a new study suggests that they're doing it already.The results show that talk therapy or psychiatric medications can...
View ArticleStress Can Be Good For Us
We hear a lot about the downsides of stress.Too much of it can impair thinking, harm our health and, more prosaically, put us in a bad mood.But anyone who pontificates about the risks of chronic stress...
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A Watchdog Group Says Splenda Is No Longer On The 'Safe' List
The artificial sweetener sucralose (sold under the brand name Splenda) could potentially pose health risks, so it needs to be better understood before the sweetener should be assumed to be safe, one...
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29 Ways To Stop Wasting So Much Food
Ah, childhood meals: Flinging peas at your sister, hiding more peas under the mashed potatoes, and being scolded by an adult for avoiding the consumption of said peas — “Clean your plate! There are...
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Dangerous Storms Could Spawn A Derecho That Threatens Millions
Ingredients are coming together across parts of the Midwest and Ohio Valley for a dangerous outbreak of severe weather with widespread wind damage similar to that of a derecho.AccuWeather.com...
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How Your Nail Can Spawn A Regrown Finger Or Toe Tip
Mammals can regenerate the very tips of their fingers and toes after amputation, and now new research shows how stem cells in the nail play a role in that process.A study in mice, detailed online today...
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X-Rays Reveal Ancient Dinosaur-Bird's Colors
A transitional species that represents a link between dinosaurs and birds may have sported pale feathers that were dark at the tips, a new study suggests.For the study, detailed in the June 13 issue of...
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Astronomers Have Discovered A New Type Of Star
A previously unknown kind of variable star is on brilliant display 7,000 light-years from Earth in a new photo taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.For years scientists have known that the...
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NYC Is Going To Get Dumped On Tonight
The non-tropical storm will belt areas from northern and coastal New Jersey to eastern Massachusetts with a period of windswept, drenching rain Thursday night into Friday morning.Enough rain could fall...
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Possible Escape Tunnel Found At A Nazi Death Camp
Traces of an escape tunnel have been uncovered at the site of an infamous Nazi death camp in Poland, according to news reports.Archaeologists say the passageway, found 5 feet (1.5 meters) below the...
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2012 Was An Outrageously Expensive Year For Natural Disasters
Hurricane Sandy and an extensive drought made 2012 the United States' second costliest year for natural disasters since 1980, federal officials said today (June 13).Weather and climate disasters racked...
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Your Taste In Music Is Influenced By The Shape Of Your Skull
Why is it that some songs get your toes tapping and others leave you cold? Part of the answer may lie in the unique shape of your skull.In addition to the obvious social and cultural influences on...
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The World's Population Could Reach 11 Billion By 2100
The world's population could reach 11 billion by the year 2100, according to a new statistical analysis.That represents 800 million more people than was forecast in 2011. Most of that increase comes...
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Electrified Blood Allows Marine Mammals To Hold Their Breath For 90 Minutes
Biologists have unravelled why deep diving mammals such as sperm whales can hold their breath for over an hour when diving for food – they have electrically charged proteins in their blood.The...
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Woman Will Stop Eating For 100 Days To Prove Humans Can 'Live On Light'
A Seattle woman is attempting to go 100 days without eating to prove that humans can "live on light".Naveena Shine says she believes it is possible for human beings to survive without food and is...
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Claw Marks On Mars Caused By Dry Ice Sleds
Some gullies scoring the sides of Martian sand dunes were likely carved by frozen chunks of carbon dioxide, also known as dry ice, a new study finds."I have always dreamed of going to Mars," lead...
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Kids In Japan Are Licking Each Other's Eyeballs
Japan's distinctly bizarre trend of eyeball licking or "Oculolinctus " isn't just distinctly bizarre: it's also bad for your health, scientists have discovered.Although it admittedly seems obvious that...
View ArticleRussian Multimillionaire Seeks To Mass Produce Lifelike Humans By 2035
How's this for a weekend conference: Some of the smartest people in the world are gathering in New York to try to figure out how to build lifelike copies of humans ... to be eventually uploaded with...
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The 5 Best Foods For Speeding Up Your Metabolism
Understanding the role of your body's metabolism is key to good health.“Metabolism is the process of transforming food into energy for the body,” says Heather Bauer, R.D., C.D.N., and founder of...
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Coastal Cities And Climate Change: You're Going To Get Wet
BEFORE Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale’s concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida’s coastal...
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