Sugar seems so harmless, especially when we add a teaspoon or two in our coffee or cereal. However, according to reports, it might just be the no. 1 killer in your diet, contributing to problems such as cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S., cancer, aging, fatigue and many o...
Does advertising influence society, or is it merely a reflection of society’s pre-existing norms? Where male attitudes are concerned, a new study implicates magazine advertisements specifically aimed at men as helping to reinforce a certain set of views on masculinity termed “hyper-masculinity.â...
Estimates show that syphilis affects large numbers of pregnant women worldwide and can, in turn, pose serious health problems to babies, including death.
Rats linked by a cable were able to communicate using only their brain--despite being separated.
Watch the invisible motions of humans and objects that you wouldn't normally see with your naked eye using MIT's new technology.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported, based on a 'Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami based on preliminary dose estimation' that there is a greater risk for specific cancers in certain subsets of the population in Fukushima ...
Earth's ancient, toxic ocean may have delayed evolution, according to a new study.
Astonishingly, a virus that exclusively attacks the cholera bacteria was caught having stolen the functional immune system of bacteria--and is even using it against its bacterial host. A study published this week in the journal Nature provides the first evidence that this type of virus, a bacterioph...
Basic chemicals that are key to DNA have been found in interstellar space.
A recent screening could prevent the death of 12,000 smokers in the U.S. according to reports.
China is planning on launching three men into space in an experimental space module this summer; it's the latest part of the country's ambitious plan to build a space station.
The planet formation process, until now only known from computer simulation, was possibly observed directly for the first time in a not too far away system by astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope. A protoplanet similar to the gas giant Jupiter was detected to be embedded in a thick disc of...
