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Bye bye, Bao! The previous holder of the title "The tallest living man", a Chinese citizen of Mongolian ethnic root, Bao Xishun, with his 2.36m (7ft 9in) height, is a dwarf compared to the new record holder. The Ukrainian man Leonid Stadnyk, 37, has been recognized as the world's tallest living person by the Gui... |
10 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A big bone means more than just a big hunk. And in fact, the way you look is shaped by your bones more than you would have thought. We already know that bones produce red and white blood cells, store calcium and help control blood pH. But that's more on the story: a new research shows that bones release a protei... |
10 August 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Next time when you call somebody "a worm", you must know you're talking about a long lost cousin. Scientists have found strong proof that the hypothalamus and other hormone-secreting brain centers are much older than previously thought and probably have their origins in the multifunctional neurons of the last co... |
6 August 2007
04:31 GMT |
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Having an excellent memory can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse. It's good to retain useful information, but it would be great if you could erase the memory of certain moments... The emotional memories helped us during our evolution: you had to remember where the lions haunted in the African savanna, bu... |
1 August 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Pill, patch or implant? Which way will women choose to overrun their body with progesterone, the anti-pregnancy hormone? The hormonal implants are barely employed in developed countries and only a bit more popular in developing countries, but a new review shows that implantable contraceptives are highly effective.Thr... |
31 July 2007
14:06 GMT |
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She's the girl of your dreams. Now you have to start the... 'attack'. Go and get her. 'What if I do not tell her the right words?' 'Or what if I'm not looking great right now.' What if this, and what if that, and more ifs till you get cold feet, things turn tougher, competitors... |
19 July 2007
13:36 GMT |
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When this drug appeared, it really produced a sexual revolution. Contraceptive pills are good, but they do pose some hampering issues, like the fact the woman has to take them constantly in a scheduled way. But mifepristone meant total sexual freedom, as it did not require all this, and could be the solution after an... |
18 July 2007
14:21 GMT |
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We are a unique gene complex, so, if we function so differently from one individual to another, why not use a personalized IVF (in vitro fertilization)? Especially as 90 % of the women receive the wrong dose when undergoing IVF. An international team has developed an easy-to-use mathematical formula that permits a pe... |
16 July 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Good times for the male pooches. Their balls will be safe, while they will get friendlier, due to a new contraceptive implant that stops testosterone and sperm production for months. It is expected to obtain European approval within weeks, and it could be also sold in the US.The production of sex cells (egg and sperm... |
12 July 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Being fair play or not seems to be a question of sex hormones in men. A new research found that men with high testosterone levels are more likely to reject low offers, even if, this way, they're losing money. It appears that our deepest ancestral behaviors can make us choose irrational economic decisions.In the ... |
5 July 2007
14:21 GMT |
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It is well known that stress can indeed suppress reproduction in humans. Researches showed that stress-reducing therapy made women regain their fertility. Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, found cognitive behavior therapy alone was enough to restore periods in some women. High levels of stress hormo... |
4 July 2007
11:56 GMT |
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You may believe that you eat double because of the stress and you store a double quantity of fat. That's right, except for a little detail: you store four times more fat! That's because stress makes you not only eat more, but also store more from the same food amount, as revealed by a team from the Georgeto... |
2 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Filling the shopping cart has turned into an act of faith. But while buying food, you can be misled. Because many times you do not really know what you eat. I'm not referring to the mad cow disease or bird flu, which appear in all news and daily capture our attention, but on the way we are cheated by food produc... |
23 June 2007
06:58 GMT |
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A man with a micropenis has an unusually small penis, of about 2 cm at birth, and 4 cm in adulthood (2.5 times smaller than the average penis size). The micropenis is discovered shortly after birth when all parts of the genitals have had a chance to fully evolve, when scrotum and perineum is well-developed, to discar... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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There are about 110,000 pedophiles in Great Britain. And 90% of the child abuses occur in a family setting. Now, the British government has announced a new measure to reduce the increasing number of sex crimes in the country.Sex offenders and pedophiles will be offered a "chemical castration", a drug treatment that w... |
18 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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If your white wife gives birth to a Black child in Africa or a Mongoloid one in China, you wouldn't be very pleased. But there are mothers that change the coloration of their offspring according to the local environment. A team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has discovered that female side-blotche... |
13 June 2007
09:16 GMT |
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Male vanity hardly copes with the fact that in 50 % of the cases, the couple's infertility is the man's fault. It is even trickier to get him to see a doctor for a fertility evaluation. The new at-home screening test, called Fertell, has solved this. This is the first at-home device to test the concentratio... |
12 June 2007
15:51 GMT |
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No sugar food, no body fat. This is the principle of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. But how does this work?Two new researches link this to a hormone that regulates fat burning when the body turns from carbohydrates to its own fat reserves for getting energy, a discovery crucial for treating metabolism co... |
7 June 2007
15:46 GMT |
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The weak sex...Indeed, in the case of many cancers, women have been observed to display a lower resistance than men. But when the patients are older than 60, the differences in the cancer survival rates vanish. This fact made some researchers suspect that female sex hormones, before reaching the age of 60, can be lin... |
6 June 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Safe sex seems to be quite different from great sex, as researchers discovered that women who do not use condoms when they have sex are less vulnerable to depression and less likely to attempt suicide compared to women who practice sex with condoms and women that are sexually inactive.This finding points to the concl... |
28 May 2007
14:51 GMT |
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It may look like a joke, but the length of children's fingers can forecast their learning ability, as students. Individuals with longer ring fingers than index fingers have a flair for math and exact sciences, as compared to literacy or verbal scores, while children with the reverse finger-length case are more p... |
23 May 2007
04:26 GMT |
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You ingest a peanut and get fat while the skinny dude in front of you eats five hamburgers and stays just as slim as always...Well, I don't know if it's really "a peanut" that you eat, since quite often you fell like "devastating" a bag of potato chips or a huge chocolate bar and not an apple or an orange. ... |
12 May 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Frogs croak, lions roar, peacocks show their tails, but chemical signals for attracting a mate are much more employed. In fact, chemical signaling can be employed also for alarm, communicating food availability, defending territory. But do humans use the chemical signals? Pheromones are chemicals which, when emitted ... |
25 April 2007
10:33 GMT |
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That's too much. Besides the mental suffering due to the loss of sexuality, the hormonal changes linked to menopause also suppose a physical ordeal: the hot flashes. Hot flashes are commonly perceived as a feeling of intense heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat, and - in case of older women - may typically las... |
16 April 2007
05:03 GMT |
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The greediness of the farmers has gone up to the point when they would like to see just corn and nothing else on a cornfield. And atrazine is one of the most widely employed allies, possibly the most employed herbicide worldwide and one of the most common contaminants in ground and surface water, a long-lived poison ... |
2 April 2007
03:45 GMT |
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Every wave of disgust is not a shallow issue, but a biological problem more serious than... losing a meal. "The reason we experience disgust today is that the response protected our ancestors. The emotion allowed our ancestors to survive long enough to produce offspring, who in turn passed the same sensitivities on t... |
28 March 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Were the real cowboys as macho as Clint Eastwood? Well, a new research suggests that pregnant women who consume beef daily could be more likely to deliver sons with lower sperm counts than others. Sperm development takes place in stages throughout a guy's life from the pre-natal months to adulthood, but a critic... |
28 March 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Throughout their lives, humans sleep for the equivalent of one third of their lifespan. This is probably why the topic of sleep has always been and continues to be one of great interest for researchers. For instance, in the '50s, American researchers discovered, by measuring EEGs (electroencephalograms), the exi... |
21 March 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Organic food producers and advocacy groups have supported the idea that milk from hormone-treated cows leads to the onset of early puberty as well as cancer risk. U.S. sales of organic dairy products rose from $133 million in 1996 to $1.3 billion in 2001, even if their cost is double than that of conventional product... |
21 March 2007
06:21 GMT |
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The overweight is a serious issue in developed countries. But nervous anorexia is also reaching terrific numbers. For example, in Spain, with a total of 40 million inhabitants, it may affect about 1 million persons!53 % of the adult population in the developed countries suffer from overweight while 10% of the teenage... |
15 March 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Women resorting to IVF (in vitro fertilization) take drugs to boost egg maturation in their ovaries. These ovules are extracted by doctors and fertilized in the laboratory; but some women's ovaries cannot generate any egg even under medication, and in such cases the treatment fails. As IVF treatment means $10,00... |
15 March 2007
08:33 GMT |
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the last solution to which sterile couples resort and many physicians prescribe the steroid hormones called glucocorticoids, as they have powerful effects on triggering the body's inflammatory and immune responses, in order to make the lining of the uterus more receptive to embryo... |
12 March 2007
08:11 GMT |
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