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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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Coffee Is Good For You - But Not With 21 Teaspoons Of Sugar

Coffee Is Good For You - But Not With 21 Teaspoons Of Sugar

Feb 03 2011 | comment(s)

Coffee can be quite good for you, as any number of studies have shown.   But you still have to take some personal responsibility for moderation because companies like Starbuck's are not going to do it for you.    They're not in the personal responsibility business, they are in the drink business, so when they roll out a new size - the "Trenta" - this spring, all 31 ounces of it, they want you to buy it in any form you want.
Coaches Help Teach Athletes Ethics Also

Coaches Help Teach Athletes Ethics Also

Feb 03 2011 | comment(s)

There are exceptions, of course - some athletes will never be ethical no matter how much coaching they receive and not all coaches are ethical, but overall coaching helps athletes become more than better athletes.   

New survey data from Concordia University says coaches exert moral influence over athletes and how athletes respond.
Biodiesel No More Harmful Than Regular Diesel - Hardly A Great Endorsement

Biodiesel No More Harmful Than Regular Diesel - Hardly A Great Endorsement

Feb 03 2011 | comment(s)

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s, with Vice-President Al Gore declaring them the Holy Grail of fossil fuel replacement.    Unfortunately, no quality science agreed with that assessment yet they have been passed into law anyway by anti-science politicians who saw a way to please part of the voter base.
Found: 54 Potentially Habitable New Planets

Found: 54 Potentially Habitable New Planets

Feb 03 2011 | comment(s)

New papers in arXiv show that the Kepler space telescope continues to fulfill its mission of searching for exoplanets, especially those in the 'habitable' zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, around stars.
Can There Be A 'Universal' IQ Test?

Can There Be A 'Universal' IQ Test?

Jan 27 2011 | comment(s)

Measuring 'intelligence' is a much art as science.   Even using the word intelligence sends people down a philosophical rabbit hole, disagreeing about what the word means.

So can there be a 'universal' intelligence test that measures...okay, we have to use the world 'intelligence' despite it being a logical fallacy to use it in its own definition...intelligence regardless of cultural or language?

José Hernández-Orallo, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, says he can do even better.   He says his intelligence test can fairly measure the intelligence of adults or kids.  Even robots.
Holographic TV May Make 3-D TV Ancient Before It Takes Off

Holographic TV May Make 3-D TV Ancient Before It Takes Off

Jan 27 2011 | comment(s)

If wearing 3-D glasses makes you feel like we haven't progressed much since the 1950s, you are not alone.   Fortunately, MIT is in the 1970s - namely, the movie "Star Wars" from 1977, using a 2011 Microsoft Xbox Kinect to create streaming holographic video of Princess Leia, among other things.

Their work is still research, achieving a few frames per second and low resolution, but it may make 3-D TV irrelevant.