It is often said that 8 hours of sleep is essential. But is this really true?
Why living in a green neighborhood is good for your heart
Exercise lowers the number of calories expended at rest in obese people
A promising discovery in the development of treatments to prevent memory loss
No more mosquito bites with Mosquito-resistant clothing developed by scientists
How to get rid of mosquitoes according to science
Keeping your brain lively with games may defer Alzheimer's dementia for several years
Why do people get carsick?
Is it bad to listen to music while sleeping?
The next 'pandemic' is antibiotic resistance, a ticking time bomb, and we are doing nothing to stop it
Having saved millions of lives, antibiotics are one of the miracles of modern medicine. Sadly they are under threat as resistance in bacteria is spreading expeditiously around the planet. Some experts call it one of the biggest threats we currently face as humankind. Yet, we are doing neigh on nothing to stop it.
Mice are capable of abstract thinking, just like humans
According to a new study from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Mice possess the same cognitive abilities as humans. The research team developed and tested an innovative technique that allowed them to reveal that mice use abstract categorizing tactics to learn and process their environment, just like us.