Scientists are discovering that climate change--and not just fertilizer from farm use--may be spurring the emergence of barren underwater landscapes in coastal waters. Expanding dead zones not only spell trouble for biodiversity, but they also threaten the commercial fisheries of many nations. picked by karenben 1 week ago

Overeating makes the brain go haywire, prompting a cascade of damage that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ills. picked by karenben 1 week ago

Psychologists and educators are very interested in these questions, and in the related question: What's the best way to study? picked by karenben 1 month ago

U.S. Government survey shows patterns of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. picked by karenben 1 month ago

Moms who deliver naturally may be more responsive to their newborn's cries than women who deliver via cesarean section, a study shows. picked by karenben 1 month ago

A study in the journal Science finds that it takes an average of 24 years between the first finding of a chemical compound's potential usefulness and the first publication showing clinical effectiveness. picked by karenben 1 month ago

Pregnant women who live through wars are more likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a study linking prenatal stress with the mental illness. picked by karenben 2 months ago

A CROCODILE killed and ate a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh after he waded into a pond next to a shrine hoping to be blessed by the animal, police say. picked by karenben 2 months ago

Scientists have discovered a new form of synesthesia, a rare but benign condition in which some people see the world quite differently than the rest of us. picked by karenben 2 months ago

A 61-year-old Japanese woman has given birth to a surrogate child. She is believed to be the oldest surrogate mother yet recorded in Japan. picked by karenben 2 months ago

Are kids with frequent ear infections at increased risk of becoming overweight later in life? Early research suggests they are, and that damage to the nerves controlling taste may be to blame. picked by karenben 2 months ago

If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight 40 years from now, a government-funded study projects. picked by karenben 2 months ago

When we age, just as we naturally lose physical agility, we lose mental agility. But you can do something about, even increase, your mental capacity as you grow older. picked by karenben 2 months ago

Doctors should ask their teenage patients what type of music they prefer to determine if they are at risk of developing a mental illness or committing suicide, researchers say. picked by karenben 2 months ago

Astronomy picture of the day. picked by karenben 2 months ago

WOMEN have always suspected that men can't live without them - now figures have proved it. picked by karenben 2 months ago

The Milky Way Over Ontario. picked by karenben 3 months ago

Asking patients to monitor their own medications can be fatal, as exemplified by the recent death of actor Heath Ledger. picked by karenben 3 months ago

#1. Virtually all types of antibiotics act only on replicating bacteria. picked by karenben 3 months ago

Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids. picked by karenben 3 months ago

Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases. Roger Highfield explains more. picked by karenben 3 months ago

It may be hard to believe that watching TV can damage our health, especially the health of kids, and disturb daily life, but there are many reasons that this is true. picked by karenben 3 months ago

The great list of 10 key ground-breaking, paradigm shifting ideas which revolutionalized the way people think or behave. They also drastically changed the way humans interact with their environments. picked by karenben 4 months ago

Opening with a scene/yelp recalling The Bride’s headshot in Kill Bill, the teaser trailer for director Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone plays it hard and fast underneath cyber-noirish lighting (Swordfish, much?) that is sure to turn some people off. picked by karenben 4 months ago

A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so. picked by karenben 4 months ago