Half of teenagers sleep deprived, say experts BBC News More than half of all teenagers may be sleep deprived, according to experts. | A combination of natural hormone changes and greater use of screen-based technology means many are not getting enough sleep. | Research has suggested teenagers need nine hours' sleep to function properly. | "Sle...
Soon, blood test to predict suicide risk Newstrack India Tweet | Washington, August 21 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a series of RNA biomarkers in blood that may help identify people who are at risk for committing suicide. | The researchers said the biomarkers were found at significantly higher levels in the blood of both bipolar disorder patients wi...
Video: How to make Vladivostok salad Otago Daily Times Olga Shevtsova, from Russia, shows how to make a Vladivostok salad. | | Olga Shevtsova and her husband came to New Zealand in 2001, first to Auckland, then five years later they decided they'd prefer to live in Dunedin, though their grown-up d...
Researcher Controls Another Person’s Brain Over the Internet The New York Times By NICK BILTON | Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully connected two human brains over the Internet. | In an experiment called “Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans,” the scientists involved in the researc...
Alloderm is just one gift of many from organ donors The Miami Herald Q. I recently had a mastectomy and had a tissue expander placed in my chest so that I could have reconstructive surgery. My surgeon said that he used Alloderm when he put the tissue expander in so that it would support my skin and it would make it ea...
When Is It Better to Be a Woman of Few Words? Jezebel Sometimes it's just better to shut up. A situation arises, and you might be tempted to talk your way through it, in it, out of it, around it, and it's better to just…not. But if you like words and logic and being up front about things and trying to...
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Mexican President Invites Foreign Investment in Energy The New York Times MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico on Monday, pushing one of the most sweeping economic overhauls in Mexico in the past two decades, proposed opening his count...
A Malaria Vaccine Works, With Limits The New York Times A new type of malaria vaccine gave 100 percent protection against infection to a small number of volunteers in recent tests — but under conditions that would be nearly impossible...
The Next Great Revolution and It Must Be Televised Huffington Post As we enter the week of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the seminal public expression of the 20th century Civil Rights Movement, stark reminders remain that display the magnitude of our nation's unfinished business. There has been un...
Cocaine changes brain structure in mice Toronto Sun Tweet | Taking cocaine can change the brain structure within hours - in what could be the first steps of drug addiction. | New tests on mice, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed new structures linked to learning and memory began grow...
Instant noodles may help combat world hunger? Deccan Chronicle | Researchers have claimed that instant noodles could help satiate hunger and in sustaining lives worldwide. | Deborah Gewertz, the G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology at Amherst, and her co-authors examined the history, manufacturing, marketing and consumption of the foodstuff and make the case that instant noodles are going to...
