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What Are Bacteria?

April 25, 2019 | Reference

Friend or foe? These tiny microbes can cure or kill.
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Eating While Stressed Could Mean Extra Weight Gain, Mice Study Finds

April 25, 2019 | Article

Beware the comfort food
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A Common Food Additive Is Linked to Insulin Resistance. Here's What That Means

April 24, 2019 | Article

A common food additive called propionate could alter metabolism in ways that could increase the risk of diabetes, a preliminary study suggests.
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Mumps: A Highly Contagious, Easily Preventable Disease

April 24, 2019 | Reference

Mumps is an unpleasant and highly contagious disease, but a simple two-dose vaccine is 88% effective against the infection.
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Smallpox: The World's First Eradicated Disease

April 23, 2019 | Reference

Prior its eradication in 1980, smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people globally.
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High Body Fat Linked to Possible 'Brain Shrinkage'

April 23, 2019 | Article

A new study suggests that high levels of body fat may affect the brain's structure.
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Men's Beards Contain More Harmful Bacteria Than Dogs' Fur, Small Study Suggests

April 23, 2019 | Article

The human beard is germier than dog fur.
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How Is Decaf Coffee Made?

April 21, 2019 | Article

Getting caffeine out of coffee is an intensive process.
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Why Do Our Fingernails Keep Growing Until the Day We Die?

April 20, 2019 | Article

You may give them little thought beyond when to trim them or which nail color to apply. But the humble nail laid the groundwork for our evolution into the humans we are today.
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How Did a Neck Crack Leave a Woman Partially Paralyzed?

April 19, 2019 | Article

For a young woman in the U.K., an accidental neck crack had a devastating outcome.
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