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Standing Up At Work Is Supported By Real Science
WINSTON CHURCHILL knew it. Ernest Hemingway knew it. Leonardo da Vinci knew it. Every trendy office from Silicon Valley to Scandinavia now knows it too: there is virtue in working standing up. And not...
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Scientists Used This Woman's Cancer Cells Without Consent For 62 Years
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Information about the most famous and valuable human cells in the history of science is about to become a little harder for researchers to get.The National Institutes of Health...
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New Drug Fights Cancer By Boosting Your Body's Natural Defenses
A new type of drug that “revs up” the immune system to destroy cancer is being tested on humans for the first time.Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed the treatment in an attempt...
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It's Incredibly Difficult To Study Medical Marijuana
Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent, is officially down with weed. In an article for CNN, the well-known medical personality apologized for dismissing the scientific value...
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Science Provides Four Great Reasons To Start Exercising
I know a lot of people with commitment issues, and I'm not talking even talking about relationships. Many people have trouble committing to their own health.Sure, they may keep up with annual physicals...
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Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans How To Use Tools
Neanderthals apparently created the oldest known examples of a kind of bone tool used in Europe, thus raising the possibility that modern humans may have learned how to make these tools from...
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A Fish With A Taste For Testicles Has Shown Up In Denmark
Danish skinny-dippers beware: A piranha cousin rumored to go after testicles might be invading brackish waters near Copenhagen.On Aug. 4, local fisherman Einar Lindgreen was going through his catch...
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How To Recognize Melanoma, The Most Dangerous Type Of Skin Cancer
Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. Approximately 75 percent of all skin cancer deaths are due to melanomas, which may appear suddenly. They are most frequently found on the areas of the...
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The Paleo Diet Is Nothing Like What Our Ancestors Ate
Over the years, hundreds of diet books have claimed to have the perfect recipe for decreasing the national girth.They manipulate quantities of protein, fats or carbohydrates and most work in the short...
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A New Theory Suggests That The Universe May Not Be Expanding After All
Every now and again, cosmologists decide that the universe needs a rethink.For example, for the past century, they have likened it to an inflating balloon, decorated with galaxies. Now one theoretical...
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Byzantine Dump Yields Ancient Coins, Jewelry, And Oil Lamps
Hundreds of coins, intact lamps and even ancient gold jewelry have been found in Israel, curiously discarded hundreds of years ago in a Byzantine garbage dump.Archaeologists have been excavating the...
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Scientists Have Finally Solved A 40-Year-Old Galactic Mystery
For decades, scientists were at a loss to explain the source of the so-called Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas discovered in the early 1970s that extends nearly halfway around the Milky Way.But...
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Giant 'Blue Jupiter' Exoplanet Photobombs Its Parent Star
A hot alien planet that's as big as Jupiter and cobalt blue in color has been spotted crossing in front of its parent star in the X-ray spectrum — a first for scientists.Nearly two decades ago,...
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Nevada Rock Carvings Proven To Be Oldest In North America
On the west side of Nevada's dried-up Winnemucca Lake, there are several limestone boulders with deep, ancient carvings; some resemble trees and leaves, whereas others are more abstract designs that...
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Why Some People Don't Remember Their Dreams
People who tend to remember their dreams also respond more strongly than others to hearing their name when they're awake, new research suggests.Everyone dreams during sleep, but not everyone recalls...
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Sugar May Be Toxic In Smaller Doses Than We Thought
Well, good thing this never quite happens to humans. Or does it?In an unusual study, a team of biologists raised a bunch of wild mice — not the docile lab mice most scientists use — on a healthy diet,...
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Scientists Have Turned Human Skin Cells Into A Beating Heart
A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has created lab-grown human heart tissue that can beat on its own, according to a new study in Nature Communications.In 2008, a...
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A Group Of Students Are Working On A Bacteria-Powered Light Bulb
We've all basked in the glow of different light bulbs: incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, neon, LED, and more. But a lamp that harbors living, light-emitting bacteria — a biological bulb, if you will...
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Ancient Greece Collapsed Because Of A 300-Year Drought
A 300-year drought may have caused the demise of several Mediterranean cultures, including ancient Greece, new research suggests.A sharp drop in rainfall may have led to the collapse of several eastern...
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First Study Of Its Kind Analyzes People Who Kill Their Entire Families
Murder cases in which people kill their spouse and children are relatively rare, but a British study that analyzed incidents of so-called family annihilation over a 30-year period suggests the rate of...
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