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Just like all those commercials keep telling us, our hair is subject to more aggressions than we could, or want to keep count of – and that happens on a daily basis. Starting from the cold autumn wind, the powerful rays of the sun and down to the very products we use on it in order to restore it to decent &ldqu... |
8 September 2008
07:50 GMT |
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For most of us, fiery supermodel Naomi Campbell is a symbol of everything ultra-fashionable: designer clothes and shoes, trendy accessories and an overall impeccable look from head to toe: nothing unusual so far - we are, after all, talking about a world-famous supermodel who has fashionable friends and travels the w... |
27 May 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Lice need their "forest" in order to survive. However, just like the Brazilian Amazon forests, another one seem to be lost forever, thanks to the influence of modern civilization... A British research published in the June 2006 issue of the Sexually Transmitted Infections journal revealed that crab rates in Leeds are... |
12 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Sarah Jessica Parker is one of those movie stars who always seem to hold a card up their sleeve and who always manage to surprise you in one way or another, either by their actions or statements. It's hard to imagine that the actress who became famous for playing a shoe-addicted fashionista who often dons slight... |
5 May 2008
10:14 GMT |
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It is said that the mustache is a symbol of male vanity. A vanity that was lost in the western world. But not in other parts of the world. In India, mustached men impose more respect. And this man must impose a lot of respect: Badamsinh Juwansinh Gurjar, 60, an Indian villager from Ahmedabad (western India). On Febru... |
22 March 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Wild horses (today, only Prjewalski horses are a wild species) prefer the fashion of short tails. Domestic and bewildered horses (read mustangs) wear longer tails. And here comes Summer Breeze, a Kansas mare. There's nothing fake in the image you see. Tail extensions are excluded. This exceptional horse has such... |
10 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You may have heard about many freak records (and the Guinness Book of World Records is full of them) and now you can add another one: Radhakant Bajpai, a grocer from the city of Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has the world's hairiest ears. Bajpai's ear tufts were already 13.2 cm (5.2... |
10 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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No alibi for killers, no unknown origins for the victims: a new crime-fighting tool analyze human hair for revealing location, helping police to follow the past movements of criminal suspects or murder victims. "You are what you eat and drink - and that is recorded in your hair," said lead researcher Thure Cerling, a... |
26 February 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Our scalp has about 100,000 hair follicles. About 100 of them stop working daily and, consequently, hairs fall. But at the same rate they are replaced. Of course, this is the case when baldness is not encoded in your genes. Scientists are still trying to understand the pathway of baldness genetics, but two recent re... |
26 February 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Today a research says celery is good for potency, tomorrow will come others to say the contrary, after that another research says that goat milk will grow the boobs of your girl, to find from another study one year later that's not true. But some studies have turned into real urban hard-like-stone beliefs, like ... |
21 December 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Zac Efron really needs to get over himself. I'm not talking about this picture in particular - just some good old fashioned advice. I mean, I know this guy is the world's greatest teenage heartthrob, and that if I were about 10 years younger I'd probably be drooling all over my keyboard writing over hi... |
21 December 2007
10:09 GMT |
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Why did humans' ancestors start to walk on two feet? The debate is more vivid than that if it was Britney Spears or not in her last video, and only in the last year it has come with several theories, from bipedal (two feet) walking in the tree of the orangutans, to energy saving. Now, add a new one: Lia Amaral, ... |
17 December 2007
06:24 GMT |
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"Rhinoceros" comes from Old Greek meaning literally "horned nose". Despite their size and appearance, these huge beasts are related to... horses, asses and zebras. Indeed, the most obvious and distinguishing characteristic of a rhino is its large one or two horns above the nose. Rhinoceros' horns are unique not ... |
7 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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The first beavers appeared in North America about 32 million years ago (at the beginning of Oligocene); by the end of Oligocene, 23 million years ago, they entered Europe, and by the end of Miocene, 5 million years ago, they entered Asia. There are 22 extinct genera of beavers. In Pleistocene, 2 million years ago, Tr... |
29 November 2007
17:28 GMT |
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What's the connection between black hair, body weight and stress? Just one gene encoding for proteins previously believed to be involved in the immune system. This is the conclusion of a research carried on dogs at Stanford University and published in the journal Science. Defensins appear to be rather involved i... |
28 November 2007
06:10 GMT |
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It seems that bad teeth also mean bad hair. Dental infection outbreaks have been found to induce alopecia areata (localized baldness), one of the most mysterious types of hair loss. Alopecia areata usually causes bald patches on the scalp, sometimes also on the body, and affects both males and females of all ages, in... |
28 November 2007
05:00 GMT |
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Smoking causes over 50 health conditions, from lung cancer and heart disease to impotence. And as impotence always manages to 'scare' the consumers and make them more aware of the whole situation, you should now that tobacco smoking doesn't come just with yellowed nails and teeth: it also increases age... |
26 November 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Some conditions can induce real bizarre eating behaviors. Pica ("magpie" in Latin) is a disease characterized by the appetite for non-food substances. These people will ingest anything, like a magpie, from non-food substances like dirt, paper, coal, soil, chalk, glue and clay but will also have a curious appetite fo... |
24 November 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Do you look like a Christmas tree under the strobe light of the club? Covered by "globes" of dandruff? That's because of a fungus that impedes your search for a mate. All this while having sex on your head perhaps even at this moment. A research team at Procter & Gamble Beauty, a subsidiary of the company produc... |
8 November 2007
02:40 GMT |
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The hair fiber has in its composition keratin and some derived proteins. The protein has a fibrous structure, which also enters in the composition of feathers, nails, hoofs, and horns. Of all the hair growing on the human body, the beard has the toughest and most resistant fibers, being as hard to cut off like copper... |
5 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Being bald or boasting a "leonine mane", having straight or curled hair, blond or black… it's all in the genes. And while you're admiring the silky hair of the East Asian girls, you should know one fact: their hair fibers are 30% larger than those of Africans and 50% than those of the Europeans.A new resear... |
5 November 2007
05:37 GMT |
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In US and Europe it is called the Boogie Man, while in Latin America (specifically Mexico and Puerto Rico) it is known as the Chupacabra (the Spanish for "Goatsucker"): a type of mythical vampire-creature that sucks the blood of the goats and the chickens and frightens the children. That's why Phylis Canion, a h... |
5 November 2007
03:14 GMT |
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You won't believe it, but the suicide blonde was Neanderthal! A new research has found that some Neanderthals were perhaps red haired and white skinned, just like modern Europeans are. "I am quite sure this variant arose like the red hair variants in modern Europeans", said lead author Carles Lalueza-Fox, of the... |
26 October 2007
03:02 GMT |
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In some cases, you may use all the possible and impossible remedies, and waste a fortune because you don't want to be bald, but your capillary 'adornment' is doomed. In other cases, there might be some solution to your problem. That's why it is important to find the cause of your hair loss. 1. Mos... |
25 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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For the Europeans, which are generally unaccustomed to seeing people of other races, Asians and Blacks look all the same at first. This is due to the fact that, amongst Europeans, there is a huge variation inside the same population when it comes to eye/hair/skin color, while they see just black haired brown eyed peo... |
24 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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In the end, extinct species could be revived not only with DNA coming from the body's tissue but also from hair! Hair has been found to be a better source of ancient DNA than bone or muscle in a research made on woolly mammoths. "The main problem with things like bone is that it contains real DNA from the source... |
28 September 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Hair loss is more than a physical issue. For many people, it is a great fatality that even changes their character. They turn more introverted, avoid relations with the others, get low self esteem, and even depression. Men will think that the others see them as being less attractive and sometimes even less virile (pa... |
26 September 2007
14:07 GMT |
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The curly hair looks tangled by itself, but a new research has come with a surprising result: the straight one is more prone to entangling. "The roughly 150,000 hairs on our heads are a fascinating but poorly understood phenomenon in the world of physics," said biophysicist Jean-Baptiste Masson from the Ecole Polytec... |
14 September 2007
03:17 GMT |
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What do Nicole Kidman, William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and Queen Elizabeth the First have in common? Their red hair.But recently, scientists have warned that redheads are turning increasingly rare and in just one century there will be no natural red haired human on the street. National Geographic magazine h... |
6 September 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Love will solve it all. Indeed, there is no other way. A famous hairy Chinese man, who calls himself King Kong, will marry at the end of 2007. Yu Zhenhuan, 30, baptized himself King Kong after watching the Hollywood Movie. "I feel King Kong is a true man, strong and doing everything for the woman he loves. At this po... |
30 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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No, this 11-year-old boy has neither fangs nor claws; he has hair growing all over his face and body, a rare developmental anomaly which can be removed just through laser treatment or plastic surgery. The boy, Prithviraj Patil, the son of a well-to-do farmer in Sangalwadi near Sangli, is otherwise a healthy normal ch... |
17 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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One important physical difference between humans and apes concerns human hair's ability to grow ceaselessly. And people make great fuss about their head adornment, as hair can be a sign of good health. Sometimes, this can turn a little bit ridiculous, like in this case: the hair is longer than the owner. Xia Aif... |
21 July 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Alyssa Milano is one of those female celebrities that spell H O T whenever they make a public appearance. Basically, she never made negative headlines for her fashion sense. That's one good looking chick who is always sharply dressed.Alyssa went out last night. Her choice for the evening was the 33 Club, where t... |
10 July 2007
10:03 GMT |
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Some salamanders can regenerate limbs and some lizards can regenerate tails, not mentioning that reptiles constantly regenerate their teeth while in mammals this phenomenon is far more limited.But a new research reveals that mammals have significantly higher regenerative abilities than previously thought, as research... |
17 May 2007
04:30 GMT |
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Have you ever seen a hairy porn star? In this case, I'm not referring to the natural head adornment.And for sure, boys prefer making sex than spending their time while wandering across a savage forest. Not to mention that in the case of the boys the image of an object covered with locks is not a very neat one. ... |
5 May 2007
06:49 GMT |
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This pathetic creature has reached the status of the most efficient killer on the planet. What turned the weaponless ape named human into what we are today? "Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their fast... |
17 April 2007
09:44 GMT |
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This mighty pharaoh has been linked to the events counted in the Bible about the Jews' exodus from Egypt and was confronted by Moses. Ramses II (1270 to 1213 B.C.) was even more known as one of the greatest military leaders of the Ancient Egypt and builder of some of the largest Egyptian monuments. Now, locks of... |
11 April 2007
11:07 GMT |
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What's the similarity between a whale, a worm and a Xoloitzcuintle?They have no hair...The body of this black dog breed is almost completely devoid of hair. Only the tip of the tail displays a white tuft of hair. This dog looks like a Pharaoh Hound, with a sleek body, almond-shaped eyes, large bat-like ears, and... |
10 April 2007
10:20 GMT |
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Desmond Morris, the famous zoologist and ethologist, called the human species "the naked ape" and said that nudity is the main trait that differentiates the human species from all other primates.There are many hypotheses trying to explain the lack of body hair in humans, including the aquatic theories. Now Medical Hy... |
14 March 2007
04:44 GMT |
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