FSC cigarettes even more dangerous? After lighting up are you experiencing more headaches, stomach cramps or a coppery taste in your mouth? Does your new FSC (fire-safe cigarette) taste bad, cause dry mouth and are you coughing more? New York State was one of the first states...

01 November, 2017

Before the 1970s, there were no regulations protecting the environment. It was perfectly legal for a factory to dump toxic waste into streams and spew toxic fumes in the air. In 1962, Rachel Carson, a renowned biologist and nature writer, published "Silent Spring", a work against...

01 November, 2017

University of Colorado Denver in a press release on April 22, 2014, reports the results of two studies published in the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences on the most common type of `friend' to be unfriended on Facebook and how "unfriending" them...

01 November, 2017

"Sometimes, a hug is all that we need." Juan Mann started the Free Hugs Campaign simply because he needed cheering up one day in 2004 when he had to leave London and return to his hometown of Sydney with only a bag full of clothes and...

01 November, 2017

In an April 23, 2014 press release, “A key to enjoying massive online photo files may be giving up some control, researchers say” researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, present the results of a 14-month study of a new device called...

01 November, 2017

According to a study conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University (MNI), listening to music we love stimulates production of the pleasure chemical, dopamine, in our brain Music appears to have no biological/survival value and unlike other more physically rewarding stimuli like...

01 November, 2017

After studying 30,000-year-old sedimentary DNA from permafrost deposits in the Yukon a Canadian research team from the University of Alberta and McMaster University have found that microbes "have been building their defences to antibiotics since the time of woolly mammoths". Their research findings published on August...

10 October, 2017

The mechanics of sleep and the process by which we store and retrieve memories has from ancient times been approached through many myths and theories, but it is only recently that hard science is seriously uncovering these mysteries of the mind. A study in Nature Neuroscience,...

10 October, 2017