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Coaches Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

20/07/2015

Teaching coaches about the prevention of sports injuries and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players...

Photocatalytic reactor by Fariborz Haghighat

Cleaners that Kill

17/07/2015

Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. ...

All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

16/07/2015

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

09/07/2015

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...

Next-Generation Hydrogel Sprayskin : Stretchy Scabs!

07/07/2015

A new protein-based hydrogel sprayskin that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue....

Smokers: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Smug

05/07/2015

Being around other smokers may be a major reason why cancer survivors are smoking and should be something that is addressed...

Kort Bremer, Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies

Could Your Phone Detect Your Pregnancy?

04/07/2015

Small add-on devices could turn a smartphone's built-in optical components into biosensing technology to monitor diabetes, test for pregnancy, monitor hazardous gases among other applications...

Make Friends and Influence Children – With Veggies

29/06/2015

When Valerie's day included serving green beans she was more likely to be described as "thoughtful", "attentive" and "capable."...

Could Virtual Reality Treat Alcoholism?

28/06/2015

Researchers said they are optimistic about the potential for virtual reality as a therapy for alcohol use disorders....

Want to extend your life expectancy? Wear earplugs

24/06/2015

In London more than 1.6 million people are exposed to daytime road traffic noise levels above 55dB, which the World Health Organization defines as a level of community noise that causes health...

Anxiety of Indolence : Is Your Armchair Killing You?

22/06/2015

An increase in sedentary behavior was associated with an increased risk of anxiety...

Sneezin’ Ticket? Virus Transmission and Commuting

21/06/2015

In increasingly mobile modern societies, long-distance transmission can rapidly spread pathogens....

It’s not flab, it’s hormones! (Or lack thereof)

16/06/2015

Turning off the Cupcake neurons makes the fruit flies "feel" hungry...

We Can Heal That For You Wholesale : Injectable Medichines

11/06/2015

Electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis...

Can You Handle Every Virus You Ever Had?

08/06/2015

On average, participants had been exposed to about 10 viral species over their lifetimes...

The Stoned Pygmy Story You Didn’t See Coming

04/06/2015

The researchers noted that cannabis might not be the only recreational drug that protects against parasites....

Quick to Laugh: Genetic Trait or Witless Imbecile?

03/06/2015

People with the short allele of 5-HTTLPR showed greater positive emotional expressions...

Dr. Dhanisha Jhaveri The University of Queensland

Learning, Memory, Mood: Different Neurons for Different Functions

01/06/2015

University of Queensland researchers have identified two types of stem cells in the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for learning and memory....

Asthma and Peanuts : The Unlikely Killer Combo

21/05/2015

Many children who have asthma have a sensitivity to peanuts, but did not know it....

E-Cigarettes and Quitting : Where’s the Evidence?

20/05/2015

E-cigarette use was associated with a higher rate of adverse effects than the nicotine patch...

Would Average-Size Models Supersize Sales?

17/05/2015

When it came to established brands, average-sized models could be used interchangeably with size zero models, with little or no impact on product or model evaluation...

Walk Quicker, Live Longer

04/05/2015

Even short walks add up to a lot when repeated many times over the course of a week....

Tackling Obeersity : Calorie Labels on Booze

03/05/2015

Most were completely unaware that alcohol contributed to the total calories that they consumed....

Piling it On : Television and Obese Children

27/04/2015

Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese ...

Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

26/04/2015

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

Serotonin and Depression : Busting the Myth

23/04/2015

The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist...

Only a Few? Smoking and Denial

21/04/2015

It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people....