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80 % people experience back pains along their life. And in 90 % of the cases, this takes long to treat, over 6 weeks. The most frequent causes are diseases like arthrosis, muscular contracture, trauma, osteoporosis and inflammatory processes, the majority linked to back muscles and bones. Now a spine specialist has c... |
16 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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The famous Lucy did not come from nowhere. She had a grandfather, and recently discovered jawbones of that species, dug in northeast Ethiopia, could explain more on a virtually unknown period of human evolution. The new bones were discovered in the same fossil-rich Afar region, just 20 mi (32 km) north of the site wh... |
14 July 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying for years now to understand how from an egg just a few times bigger than an ostrich the biggest beasts that ever roamed the Earth could grow. The fossil of a baby dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago could explain how the ancient beasts could have developed from youngsters to enormous... |
9 July 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Those Asians can ingest the oddest soups, made of anything: from the swift saliva nests to shark fins or dried frogs. In fact, it's no wonder, as they believe by ingesting rhino horns or tiger penis they would achieve the potency and power of those beasts (it would be much cheaper and environmentally friendly, w... |
5 July 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Any couch potato with high self-esteem will say his/her piggy shape is because he/she does not go to the gym. And the big muscles are just the result of hard effort and potentially everybody could display them if trained. Our body shape is the result of the combination of three tissues: muscular, bony and fatty. But ... |
4 July 2007
11:51 GMT |
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Indian smugglers do not trade only with the bones of the endangered tigers, but also with those of their co-nationals. Indian police has arrested a gang of four men in the city of Jaigaon, who had hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones which they were going to pass into the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Bu... |
25 June 2007
09:24 GMT |
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A new primitive dinosaur species, Eocursor ("early runner") parvus ("small"), discovered in South Africa, seems to be the missing link in the dinosaur evolution. The small, agile plant-eater lived in the Late Triassic, about 210 million years ago, before the emergence of the huge Jurassic beasts. Eocursor seems to be... |
14 June 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Bones are one of the toughest organic tissues and this enabled them to fossilize very well. They are also the trick behind the evolution of vertebrates. Now a MIT team has made a first-of-its-kind analysis of the bone's mechanical properties, in an attempt to explain their amazing biomechanical properties. The r... |
29 May 2007
05:07 GMT |
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After 35 years, you practice sports mainly to maintain your health and good shape. Why? For the following reasons:1. Impotence. Frequent physical exercising helps prevent sexual dysfunction as it favors the blood flow. Especially after a certain age.2. Cholesterol. Moving is the only drug that rises the "good" choles... |
21 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Romans considered themselves civilized, seeing the others - with the exception of the Greeks - as barbarians. But between 264 BC and 404 AD, the Roman society enjoyed some of the cruelest and inhuman games: the gladiator fights, a sport in which thousands of people were slaughtered in the Roman arenas for the delight... |
4 May 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Since its discovery, this beast puzzled the researchers. Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived in western North America 70 to 65 million years ago, till the disappearance of all the dinosaurs, was amongst the largest ever known land predators: the largest females reached 13 m (40 ft) length and 6.8 tons in weight. But when ... |
17 April 2007
05:03 GMT |
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F***ed to the bone could get another meaning as German researchers have successfully achieved immature sperm cells from human bone marrow stem cells. If they can develop to sperm cells, within five years we could have a breakthrough fertility treatment. The mixed team from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster and the Me... |
16 April 2007
08:35 GMT |
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In many primitive tribes, people binge themselves during periods of plenty, accumulating a round belly, and after that pass the time fasting during the season of scarcity. Many big carnivores can binge after a big kill. Lions and tigers can engulf up to 40 kg of meat at once (which represent up to 15 % of their weigh... |
5 April 2007
03:08 GMT |
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