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Acne Enhancing Pink Lighting Used To Deter Loitering Youths

According to the BBC, a handful of small towns in the UK are installing pink lighting around shops, and other areas where teens hang out and cause trouble, because it makes acne and skin blemishes more visible. Since teens are already incredibly self-conscious of the way they look, the last place they’ll want to hang…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Is CO2 Making You Fat?

There’s a never-ending stream of scientific explanations for obesity. The latest suggests that CO2 contributes to our weight gain and that as we pump more of it in to the atmosphere, the fatter we become. But can that really be the case? The theory is favored by Lars-Georg Hersoug, a scientist from Denmark. He suggests…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Red Meat Is Responsible for One in Ten Early Deaths

Deep down, we all know that red meat isn’t the healthiest thing to eat—but that doesn’t stop us tearing into a bloody steak all too often. Sadly, new research suggests that red meat is behind one in ten early deaths, so it might actually be time to make a real effort to cut back. According…

Health Jamie Condliffe

What Role Did Accused Soldier’s Brain Damage Play in Afghan Massacre?

It’s incredibly difficult to surmise what might have pushed one American sergeant to allegedly massacre 16 Afghan civilians. But new details about the still-unnamed staff sergeant’s background suggest that brain damage, wrought by a traumatic brain injury during an earlier deployment, might have been a contributing factor. It would be misleading, and downright reductionist, to…

Health Katie Drummond-wired

Eating Vegetables Makes Your Skin More Attractive

If your mother always used to nag you to eat your greens, good on her! New research suggests that not only are vegetables good for you, they also make your skin more attractive to the opposite sex. The research, carried out at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, studied the effects of fruit and…

Health Jamie Condliffe

The Dark Side of Being an Organ Donor

Becoming an organ donor is widely considered a good thing. If you die and offer up your body to medicine, you can extend the life of others with zero inconvenience—after all, you’re dead. But it turns out that the reality of organ donation isn’t quite so crystal clear, and that it’s something you might want…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Springing Forward with Daylight Savings Could Kill You

Daylight Savings starts Sunday night, forcing America’s clocks an hour into the future. Not only is this the lamest form of time travel ever invented, medical studies have suggested that being forced to get up an hour earlier for work is bad for your heart—like maybe kill you bad. “The Monday and Tuesday after moving…

Health Andrew Tarantola

How many joints would you have to smoke to die of a marijuana overdose?

The short answer? An absolutely comical amount, perhaps lit by a jet engine. It would also help if you owned a residence in Toontown or were physically a Tex Avery illustration. In a 1988 DEA brief, Judge Francis Young did the math and broke down just how much sticky-icky it would take to off you…

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To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

There’s no shortage of scientific research pointing to exercise being good for you, but if you’re just trying to lose weight you probably want all the help you can get. Now, research suggests that caffeine activates the same fat-busting genes as an hour’s exercise. Somebody, pass the espresso. A team of researchers from the Karolinska…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Who Wants to Eat Anything, Stay Thin, and Never Exercise?

A compound in your brain that behaves similarly to pot holds the secret to everyone’s fantasy: being able to eat whatever you want and not exercise while staying healthy and not gaining weight. What a world that would be! So here’s hoping an experiment recently performed in mice can be easily translated to humans. But…

Health Kristen Philipkoski

A User’s Guide to Hosting Beneficial Foreign Lifeforms

Does the idea of playing host to foreign lifeforms freak you out? It shouldn’t — everybody does it. And you probably already know that your body is full of bacteria — many of which actually help keep you alive. You wouldn’t survive for long without all the foreign life forms that your body is playing…

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Levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on meat are on the rise

Are you in the mood for a hair-raising read? Try sitting down with a copy of “The 2010 Retail Meat Report.” Issued a few days ago as part of FDA’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring system, the status update is packed with information on antibiotic-resistant foodborne organisms and where (i.e. what kinds of meat) you’ll find…

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Married Adults Are Three Times as Likely to Survive Major Surgery as Singles

For all the perceived problems and strife marriage can bring, there have to be some upsides. Here’s one: if you’re married, you’re over three times more likely to survive heart surgery than someone who’s single. Take that, bachelorhood. While previous studies have suggested that marriage is related to decreased risk of early death, this study…

Health Jamie Condliffe

What’s the Point of the World’s First Biodegradable Joint Implant?

Think of joint implants, and you probably picture hard-wearing structures made of titanium designed to last for decades. Now a new joint implant has been launched which is biodegradable—but what’s the point? Designed at Finland’s Tampere University of Technology, the new implant is made from a polylactide copolymer, and is designed to be used in…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Why Walking Is the Best Exercise

Scientists have known for a while that merely walking more can massively decrease the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, but they haven’t really known why. But now, by forcing healthy people to act like slobs, they’re starting to reveal why walking is the best thing you can do for your body. The…

Health Jamie Condliffe

What Are Your Chances of Dropping Dead in Your 40s?

Today Andrew Breitbart suddenly died. Just yesterday, to everyone who knew anything about the blustery blogger, he was a vital source of energy and information. That makes it all the more shocking to find out that shortly after midnight this morning, he collapsed onto a sidewalk and never got back up again. As much as…

Health Kristen Philipkoski

The man who invented the heart-lung machine was better known for a creative use of pig hairs

Did you know that the heart-lung machine was invented twice? And that, in typical scientific fashion, almost no one credits the original inventor. Instead, this neuroscientist is known for calibrated pig bristles. To be fair, he didn’t invent those, and no one today credits the pigs. The oldest rule in science is that the person…

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Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

Everyone knows exercise is good for you, and studies have previously shown that it can boost learning and even stave off dementia in later life—though nobody knew why. New research suggests, though, that it’s because the brain takes advantage of energy delivery systems just as much as your muscles. When you exercise, your muscles create…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Cartoonish Juicer Shreds Your Orange’s Guts

Don’t let those cartoonish eyes and the stereotypically upbeat commercial for this juicer fool you. At its core, the Gurefuru Chuchu is a cold-hearted pulp shredding machine that turns any citrus fruit into a glass of fresh pulpy juice. An included tool cuts a small hole in the peel which makes it easier to insert…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Edible Sensors Let You Know If Your Food Is Spoiled

Like the pirate code, expiration dates are more of a rough guideline for when food might go bad. But a new edible sensor made from silk and gold leaf takes the guesswork out of whether something is safe to eat. Besides luxurious bed sheets and stylish shirts, in certain forms silk is perfectly safe to…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Acne Enhancing Pink Lighting Used To Deter Loitering Youths

Is CO2 Making You Fat?

Red Meat Is Responsible for One in Ten Early Deaths

What Role Did Accused Soldier’s Brain Damage Play in Afghan Massacre?

Eating Vegetables Makes Your Skin More Attractive

The Dark Side of Being an Organ Donor

Springing Forward with Daylight Savings Could Kill You

How many joints would you have to smoke to die of a marijuana overdose?

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

Who Wants to Eat Anything, Stay Thin, and Never Exercise?

A User’s Guide to Hosting Beneficial Foreign Lifeforms

Levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on meat are on the rise

Married Adults Are Three Times as Likely to Survive Major Surgery as Singles

What’s the Point of the World’s First Biodegradable Joint Implant?

Why Walking Is the Best Exercise

What Are Your Chances of Dropping Dead in Your 40s?

The man who invented the heart-lung machine was better known for a creative use of pig hairs

Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

Cartoonish Juicer Shreds Your Orange’s Guts

Edible Sensors Let You Know If Your Food Is Spoiled

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