This 1 Thing Can Reduce Your Kid’s Chances Of School Burnout
When you think of back-to-school season, you may imagine kids sitting at desks, pencils sharpened, ready to focus on math and reading. But what if the key to kids doing well in school is actually to get them outside and moving? We know that exercise benefits kids’ physical health, but new evidence shows that it […]
Obesity treatment could offer dramatic weight loss without surgery or nausea
Imagine getting the benefits of gastric bypass surgery without going under the knife — a new class of compounds could do just that. In lab animals, these potential treatments reduce weight dramatically and lower blood glucose. The injectable compounds also avoid the side effects of nausea and vomiting that are common with current weight-loss and […]
Excess sugar consumption costs Canada’s health-care system $5 billion each year, study finds: Researchers urge use of taxation, education and subsidies to encourage better eating habits
Imagine if the real cost to society of the food you buy at the grocery store was built right into each product’s price. Everything with added sugar would cost a whole lot more, according to University of Alberta researchers in a new study in The Canadian Journal of Public Health. They peg the economic burden […]
Stronger materials could bloom with new images of plastic flow
Imagine dropping a tennis ball onto a bedroom mattress. The tennis ball will bend the mattress a bit, but not permanently — pick the ball back up, and the mattress returns to its original position and strength. Scientists call this an elastic state. On the other hand, if you drop something heavy — like a […]
For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy
Imagine being able to swap out broccoli for sweets, Ben & Jerry’s or some other sugary treat and achieve the same health benefits. This is fact not fantasy for about two to three percent of the Greenlandic population. Two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar differently than other people […]
Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds? A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.
It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and suffocating wasteland where life as we know it could not survive. The planet’s clouds are similarly hostile, blanketing the planet in droplets […]
Anxiety cues found in the brain despite safe environment
Imagine you are in a meadow picking flowers. You know that some flowers are safe, while others have a bee inside that will sting you. How would you react to this environment and, more importantly, how would your brain react? This is the scene in a virtual-reality environment used by researchers to understand the impact […]
New Fauci Documentary: ‘You Don’t Get Intimidated’
It’s hard to imagine Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, running a private practice that caters to wealthy Manhattanites, but that’s the direction he once considered. When he was called into the Public Health Service during the Vietnam War, Fauci figured he’d do his time and then “go […]
Enabling the ‘imagination’ of artificial intelligence
Imagine an orange cat. Now, imagine the same cat, but with coal-black fur. Now, imagine the cat strutting along the Great Wall of China. Doing this, a quick series of neuron activations in your brain will come up with variations of the picture presented, based on your previous knowledge of the world. In other words, […]