Consuming Fruits & Vegetables Improves Psychological Well-Being
The World Health Organization recommends five servings of fruits and vegetable every day to keep the human body healthy, but how much is needed to…
The World Health Organization recommends five servings of fruits and vegetable every day to keep the human body healthy, but how much is needed to…
Near-death experiences that have been widely reported by patients now have a scientific explanation. This phenomenon is thought to be caused by the abnormal functioning…
Megacities are usually defined by a total population in excess of 10 million, with an additional component of population density. Rapid urbanization will take a…
There is more and more scientific criticism over a study that claims that genetically modified maize causes severe diseases in rats, and this controversy shows…
In Samuel Arbesman’s new book The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, the applied mathematician examines why in the modern…
People tend to have less self-control when dealing with online problems and issues, whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter, message boards, or websites. They tend to…
Bees in a cluster of beehives in northeastern France have been making honey in shades of blue and green, alarming beekeepers and leaving scientists to…
An 11-year-old boy, Zhenya Salinder, discovered a well-preserved mammoth carcass in the permafrost of Northern Siberia, 3,500 km (2,200 miles) northeast of Moscow in Sopochnaya…
A newly published study in Science of the Total Environment is the first to evaluate the impact of food losses and its relationship to resources…
A Cretaceous period juvenile spider was trapped in amber before it could devour a male wasp caught in its web. This is the first time…
American chestnut trees are hard to breed but easy to kill. Scientists are trying to see if a hybrid of the Chinese and American chestnut…
Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans has the ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity, which is apparently key…
The venom of the black mamba snake can kill humans within 20 minutes, but among those deadly compounds are two snake proteins, called mambalgins, that…
In humans, people with strong social ties live longer, and have healthier lives, whereas hostile tendencies can lead to an early death. In animals, this…
Roughly 41 million people in the USA, nearly a third of all working adults, get six hours or fewer of sleep a night, according to…
Paleontologists have discovered micrometer-scale fossils of plankton from the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period of rapid ocean warming and acidification that occurred 55 million years…
People usually cite the lack of job security and benefits as the main reasons why they wouldn’t want to be self-employed. However, a new study…
Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid, which technically isn’t a squid at all, is a cephalopod that lives 3,000 feet (900 meters) deep in warm waters….