Green tea may help slow the advance of prostate cancer, claim researchers.

Men with the disease who consumed the active ingredients found in green tea had lower levels of markers that predict its progress, a US study has found. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency — slow and choppy reading — may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers. Their study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers’ brains that makes it difficult to integrate the information needed for... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of "slow glass". picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Being the only primate to produce venom doesn't make life easy for the Slow Loris. Superstition, ruthless traders and an inevitable lack of speed mean their prospects for a long and easy life are not good. picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A plethora of latest results from the Hinode solar observatory contains a wealth of new discoveries. This includes the discovery of a source of the slow solar wind and the observation of a superhot micro flare. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them. This warping of time apparently does not result from the brain speeding up from adrenaline when in danger. Instead, this feeling seems to be an illusion, scientists now find. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Slow down, you move too fast. Try to make that vacation last. picked by suebe 3 years ago

Lots of different slow motions clips of bullets firing and hitting their targets. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

Great slow motion footage of a tank firing a round and following it along it's path. Interesting to see how much of its is actually spinning while it's in flight. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

The curtain went up on a performance of John Cage's As Slow As Possible in Halberstadt in 2001 and yesterday a new note was played. There are another 631 years to go.

Imagine the queue for the toilets at the interval. picked by pocksucket 9 months ago

A 45-year-old man in a wheelchair allegedly robbed a Space Coast Credit Union branch on Merritt Island Friday afternoon and hid the loot in his prosthetic leg. picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

Recorded using the Photron APX high-speed video camera at 4,000 frames per second (fps). Really neat effect! picked by jaxomlotus 3 years ago

These are really cool. picked by gratheo 2 years ago

"I was going to stab her a little bit, only once,'' he said.

Is it so bad that I found this funny? picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

ever thought "Hey, what would it be like if I shot my fishtank?" Or "I really NEED to shoot this tomato soup." picked by jaxomlotus 3 years ago

With atoms and molecules in a gas moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, physicists have long sought a way to slow them down to a few kilometres per hour to trap them. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

This is yet another high-speed video of a water balloon, but this time it doesn't pop. Still looks just as cool. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Vast numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago