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.