Science/Tech Stories
People who eat meat or other animal products may increase their risk for heart failure because of the way our gut bacteria digests the food.
Math can play an important role in a runner's life if he knows how to calculate his race correctly.
Making mistakes are the best way to memorize the right answer, as long as you're not blindly guessing.
People with a common form of the herpes virus may have twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's if the virus reactivates inside its host.
A medicine used to manage the heart's electrical rhythms, and regulate heartbeat, may be able to stop the neurodegeneration caused by Lou Gehrig's disease.
Researchers were able to identify Ebola’s viral family, Filoviruses, in fossils dating back millions of years ago.
A breakthrough in research allows scientists to grow transplantable blood vessels with stem cells, and it only takes a week.
Harvard scientists have engineered a stem cell that can excrete a specific toxin capable of killing all traces of cancer in the brain.
Shutting off the blood supply to an arm or leg before cardiac surgery can protect the heart during an operation.
Without scientific consensus cognitive training is effective, Lumosity's brain games aren't necessarily any better than, say, Angry Birds.
Accessing long-term memories benefits short-term mental performance.
A baby’s preference to stare at an object, instead of a person's face, may predict a lack of guilt and empathy as well as difficulties understanding emotions during toddlerhood.