Brooke Miller : Science World Report

Sep 14, 2012 06:54 AM EDT

Marketing Increases Fruit and Vegetables Consumption When Policy Fails

For long the debate on merits of agricultural marketing programs to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption, has remained inconclusive. But the new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion claims that the key to getting people eat more fruits and vegetables is through advertising.

Sep 14, 2012 06:52 AM EDT

Smart Cities Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission

The smart growth approach focuses on the progress of compact, walkable cities with houses and jobs located close together. By cutting short the commute distance, the urban design aims to aims to cut transportation-related energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Sep 13, 2012 01:27 PM EDT

FDA Approves Drug Aubagio for Multiple Sclerosis

FDA approves a new pill to treat people with multiple Sclerosis in the United Sates. Sanofi SA has won the approval for the pill Aubagio that will be effective the chronic disease.

Sep 13, 2012 01:27 PM EDT

Woolly Mammoth Tooth Found by Construction Crew

The recent construction taking place at the new Transbay Terminal project has attracted many paleontologists. This is because a huge tooth from a woolly mammoth has been unearthed by the construction crew.

Sep 13, 2012 08:24 AM EDT

Pain Killers Could Cause Hearing Loss

Nearly 50 percent of the people in the United States suffer from high-frequency hearing loss by the time they reach 60 years old. One of the reasons for this could be the use of Analgesics that is used to treat a variety of medical conditions. The researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), s...

Sep 13, 2012 08:21 AM EDT

Humans Lack Better Designed Legs of Crabs, Grasshoppers

The legs of the crabs and grasshoppers are shaped in such a manner that can resist twisting and compression, but human leg bones lack this. According to the study if the human leg bones were built in the same way they would have been much stronger.

Sep 13, 2012 08:18 AM EDT

A New Species Of Monkey Has Been Discovered

A new species of African Monkey specie has been discovered in remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The newly discovered specie is lesula that is formally named as Cercopithecus Lomamienis.

Sep 13, 2012 08:16 AM EDT

Gut Microbes Increase Absorption of Dietary Fats

A new study by from the University of North Carolina school of Medicines underscore the complex relationship between microbes, diet and host physiology.

Sep 12, 2012 08:23 AM EDT

Western Scrub Jay Birds Hold Funerals For Their Dead

Western Scrub Jays that live in breeding pair and are not particularly social birds have projected a peculiar behavior that captured the minds of the researchers from the University of California, Davis.

Sep 12, 2012 08:19 AM EDT

Dry Ice Snowfalls on Mars Confirmed

The data revealed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data clearly indicates the presence of carbon dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This is the only example of carbon dioxide snow falling anywhere in the solar system.

Sep 12, 2012 08:19 AM EDT

Hearing Impaired Process Sound Differently

Nearly 36 million American adults suffer with hearing loss in varying degree. A study focusing on this, claims that background chatter causes the ears of those with hearing impairments to work differently.

Sep 12, 2012 08:08 AM EDT

Fossils of Smallest Known Amphibian Discovered

A new set of fossil footprints that belonged to a small amphibian which would have roamed the Earth 315 million years ago has been traced in Joggins, Nova Scotia near Amherst. These footprints are the world's smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints.