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Pilot Study: Fibromyalgia Fatigue Improved By TENS Therapy

Fibromyalgia is the term for a poorly-understood condition where people experience pain and fatigue...

High Meat Consumption Linked To Lower Dementia Risk

Older people who eat large amounts of meat have a lower risk of dementia and cognitive decline...

Long Before The Inca Colonized Peru, Natives Had A Thriving Trade Network

A new DNA analysis reveals that long before the Incan Empire took over Peru, animals were...

Mesolithic People Had Meals With More Tradition Than You Thought

The common imagery of prehistoric people is either rooting through dirt for grubs and picking berries...

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Women Quit Using Breast Using Cancer Drugs That Prevent Recurrence - Here's Why

Women Quit Using Breast Using Cancer Drugs That Prevent Recurrence - Here's Why

Dec 11 2011 | comment(s)

36% of post-menopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring after four years.

Why? The first study to actually ask the women themselves reports those women quit early because of the medications' side effects, which are more severe and widespread than previously known. A new Northwestern Medicine survey reveals a big gap between what women tell their doctors about side effects and what they actually experience.
Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Dec 11 2011 | comment(s)

Babies love to communicate and they're great listeners, even early on.  

New research shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ages of about 18 months and two years.
Females Choose To Hang Out With Sexier Friends?

Females Choose To Hang Out With Sexier Friends?

Dec 08 2011 | comment(s)

A common belief among club-going men is that women choose less attractive friends to make themselves look better. See this clip from that important anthropological documentary "Hall Pass" for context:



Not so, says a group of scientists who have observed the opposite strategy in the Trinidadian guppy, a species of small freshwater fish  - instead, the uglier friends are choosing the prettier females to avoid unwanted male attention. 
Cellebrite Doesn't Like WikiLeaks 'Spy Files' Claims

Cellebrite Doesn't Like WikiLeaks 'Spy Files' Claims

Dec 07 2011 | comment(s)

Cellebrite, a developer and manufacturer of mobile forensic solutions, has rejected claims in the recent WikiLeaks "Spy Files" exposé that it is among companies that develop and supply equipment to governments and dictators "to spy on their citizens via mobile devices and computers." 

 The WikiLeaks page referring to Cellebrite states, "The Spy Files (open) thousands of pages and other materials exposing the global mass surveillance industry."

Spinops Sternbergorum - Horned Dinosaur Discovery 100 Years In The Making

Spinops Sternbergorum - Horned Dinosaur Discovery 100 Years In The Making

Dec 06 2011 | comment(s)

A new species of horned dinosaur, Spinops sternbergorum, was announced today by an international team of scientists nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil.
Habitable Zone - G5 Star Planet Kepler 22b Is A Warm Super-Earth

Habitable Zone - G5 Star Planet Kepler 22b Is A Warm Super-Earth

Dec 05 2011 | comment(s)

Queue the 'life on other planets' media buzz.  NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun.