Don: Yael, every day I grow closer to my goal of mind control. Yael: What do you mean, Don? D: Check out this study from Ohio State University that says nodding your head to signal approval and shaking your head to signal disapproval not only lets ot...
Weve all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when were really at loose ends, we might even say were bored to death or so bored I could die! We dont really mean it, of course. But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it seems possible...
Now, this doesnt mean that feeling bored every once in a while will kill you. Were talking about chronic boredom, as in being bored all the time. And its not necessarily boredom itself thats deadly. Most probably, according to the study, its the fact...
Is heading in soccer dangerous? It's a question that has met its fair share of controversy. If you've never played soccer, heading may look pretty dangerous to the poor brain. Where else in life do you not want to duck away from an object flying stra...
In fact, recurrence of the se painful cold sores is very common because once you have the virus, you never get rid of it. The latent virus can be triggered by many factors. Exposure to wind and sun can cause an outbreak, and so can physical or emotio...
You might call them cold sores or canker sores or maybe fever blisters. Whatever theyre called in your house, if you get them, youre in the company of about ninety-five million other Americans who suffer from the virus that causes cold sores. The sci...
I've heard that laughing provides the same health benefits as jogging or some other type of light workout. Is this true? Funny you should ask, because a study out of Loma Linda University in California found that mirthful laughter is in fact very hea...
Dogs also reach reproductive age sooner than humans do. By eighteen months old, most dogs are full grown and capable of reproducing, but using the old formula, an eighteen-month-old dog would only be equivalent to a ten-year-old human, and theyre sti...
You can feel a cats purring in both the throat and stomach, which is where these muscles are located. Exactly why a cat purrs is also a matter of scientific debate. Purring clearly serves a social functionas a type of communicationbecause cats never...
So the brain receives confusing signals. Its not sure if youre just being exposed to moderate warmth or being burned. So to be safe the nervous system responds to the more severe stimulus: pain. The brain tells the body to react the same as if its be...
Scratch a friendly cat behind the ears and shes likely to reward you with a deep purring. Have you ever wondered exactly how a cat makes this noise, and why a cat would want to do so in the first place? There have been a number of theories about how...
Bite into a hot pepper and it feels a lot like youve taken a sip of a hot drink. How can something thats not hot in temperature produce the same reactions as something that is hot? Reactions like pain or sweating? Its because although nerves in the s...
One of the most intriguing questions in science is where the earths oceans came from. Did the planet always have water? Or did it come from somewhere else? A discovery suggests that Earth owes its watery nature at least in part to extraterrestrial so...
Once the seed is gone, this larva has a peculiar fondness for leaping about inside the empty pod, making its new home jump and roll from place to place. These larva even rig up a network of silk lining inside the pod, to help transfer more jumping en...
On the table in front of you, it looks like a small, dried bean. Pick it up. To your surprise, it starts to wiggle, shifting around nervously in your palm. Suddenly, it squirms back onto the table again. Weve all heard stories about Mexican jumping b...
