Middle-aged to elderly men and women who take frequent sauna baths have a substantially reduced risk of new-onset stroke, according to a 15-year follow-up...
Taking a photo each day and posting it online has multiple benefits for wellbeing, according to a study carried out by Dr. Liz Brewster of Lancaster University...
Dark chocolate consumption improves the ability to see low- and high-contrast targets, possibly owing to increased blood flow, suggests a small new study...
Some 7,000 years ago, inhabitants of a small settlement at the Early Neolithic waterlogged site of La Draga (Girona, Spain) dried non-edible fungi for...
Living a healthy lifestyle — eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking...
A duo of scientists at the University of Oxford, UK, has proposed an evolutionary framework to understand why our gut microbiota affects the brain and...
A team of researchers at Augusta University has shown that when rats or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3), it...
According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, domestic horses can read and then remember people’s emotional expressions, enabling...
An international team of scientists has found evidence of an interaction between Ice Age humans and now-extinct giant ground sloths.
White Sands footprints...
Consuming dark chocolate with at least 70% cacao has positive effects on stress levels, inflammation, mood, memory and immunity, according to two studies...
The indigenous Bajau people of Southeast Asia spend their whole lives at sea, working 8-hr diving shifts with traditional equipment and short breaks to...
A team of scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney has identified a new DNA structure...
New research, published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, has revealed that muscular strength, measured by handgrip, is an indication of how healthy our brains...
According to a new study, published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, older adults who take a mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant...
According to a review of more than 460 previous studies, ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs alone or in combination with paracetamol...
An international team of scientists from Australia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the United States has detected significant signatures of natural selection...
Researchers have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair color variation. The findings were published online this week in...
A team of researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute used an experimental targeted molecular therapy to block a matrix-forming protein,...
According to a new study, published in the April edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, taking painkillers such as paracetamol (acetaminophen)...
