Intelligent Sun Protection II: Body
	In a previous article we talked about sun exposure and the best ways to keep your face protected from the harmful effects of UVA and UVB radiation, while soaking up all the health benefits of a day at the beach. It's time to move on to the next chapter of our little "suncare101" session and talk ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intelligent Sun Protection I : Face
	With the arrival of the summer, we found ourselves not so much assaulted as positively swamped with tips and advertisements for sunscreen products. The new sun care technologies can sometimes be very confusing, so much so in fact that we often don't get a clear picture of what exactly we need to protect our face and body from the harmful effects of sun exposure, while at the same time reaping most of the benefits of hot weather. To he ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unannounced Yahoo Messenger Features Already Available: New Skins and Online Activity Sharing
	A few days ago, Yahoo rolled out a brand new version of Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta that came with several new features for Yahoo Messenger fans. Besides the bigger emoticons and the improved Vista support, Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta also brought a few ann ... [read more >>]
	03 June 2008, 16:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Natural Sunburn Remedies
	It's summer and if you're lucky enough to live within walking or driving distance of a beach, then you're sure to spend a lot more time there now that the temperatures are rising and the weather is turning hot. However, we all need to be very careful when it comes to exposing our bodies to the sun, particularly after a long interval in which sunbathing has not been on our top one hundred list of priorities, and be prepared i ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista Taking Over Your iPhone
	Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Windows Vista are not exactly best friends, not from the point of view of their creators and neither from the one of their users. However, those who (for some odd reasons) might want their iPhone's interface to feature a "very Vista" look, have now a perfect opportunity to Vistamize their Apple ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Machine Can Tell Your Age
	Teenage years are the "best" when it comes to becoming hooked on tobacco. Add to that the fact that adolescents can hardly tell the difference between what it right and what is wrong and you will see why puffing on a cigarette makes many young girls and boys feel hotter and cooler. However, the Japanese have come up with their own solution to this problem: the 570,000 cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon be able ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Finger Regenerated Using Pig Bladder Extract
	The process of regenerating fingers would not benefit only injured soldiers or hurt civilians, but could also be a first step on the way of regenerating entire limbs or damaged parts of skin (in the case of scars), hearts and spinal cords. Some animals can regenerate their limbs naturally, like the salamanders (starfishes and octopuses are less relevant in studies aimed towards future human applied technologies). Up to about age 2, people ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Want Nice Skin? Tomato Is the Secret.
	Here’s a possible explanation for the fact that Italians are famous for their Don Juan-esque qualities: the pizza and spaghetti sauce makes them look more attractive, granting them a shiny skin devoid of sunburn and wrinkles. A new research presented at the British Society for Investigative Dermatology has discovered that 5 tablespoons of tomato paste added daily to your diet improves your skin's capacity to fight harmful UV ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret to Healthy Skin: Coffee
	In the vivid debate on whether coffee is good or bad for our health, here comes a new study coffee supporters can always use as a pro argument: in the case of mice, caffeine works like a "sun screen", protecting their skin against the harmful ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation and ultimately against skin cancer. In the study published in Cancer Research, the team of researchers also presents the mechanism behind this protection: caff ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dede, The Tree Man, Operated and Back for Love
	Remember the case of Dede Koswara, 35, the Indonesian man nicknamed "Tree Man of Java", highlighted by the Discovery Channel? The man had an infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, known to cause warts and cervical (uterine), larynx, esophagus, oropharyngeal (throat, tonsils and back ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

About Scabies
	No, toads do not cause warts (they are produced by viruses), nor scab, which is caused by a mite. But pet animals, like dogs and cats can transmit this parasite. Scabies is caused by the scab mite (Sarcoptes scabiei variety hominis), 0.3 to 0.9 mm long, which lives on the surface of the skin or beneath, feeding on dead, desquamated cells. The female digs galleries into the skin, where she lays her eggs, using her mouthparts a ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wave-Treatment for Your iPhone, from Griffin
	Do you like your iPhone? Do you like spoiling your iPhone? If so, why don't you save 25 bucks on whatever you usually do and give your handset some personality, the Griffin way? iPod nano owners already have it ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Remote Lie Detector Reads Your Skin's 'Antennas'
	The human skin contains millions of sweat glands, connected to the pores at the surface through tiny sweat ducts, which could reveal the emotional state of a person without making physical contact by bouncing electromagnetic waves off them. While most people believe that these tiny ducts are straight tubes, a study conducted by Israeli researchers reveal that they are actually helical. "When you look at this through the eyes of an ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Has Skins!
	Yahoo Messenger 9.0 is still available as a beta testing software application but even so, it recorded millions of downloads straight from the first days of availability. But what's more important is that this new version of the instant messaging client comes with several new features supposed to improve the functionality of the program. A blog post published on the official Yahoo Messenger Blog reminded me of one of the ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LG SH240 Simulates the Touch Of Real Skin
	The mobile division of LG Electronics probably wanted for years to create a really unique mobile phone, and it seems that it finally managed to do so. Today, the South Korean producer released LG SH240, a handset that looks like a normal slider if you just look at it. But if you also t ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amy Winehouse Needs to Urinate on Her Own Face
	Amy Winehouse is definitely not a happy camper these days – and there is no shortage of reasons for that. But the most obvious – and frightening – one is that the British jazz diva's face has been looking increasingly worse for wear ever since her rumored relapse into her never-quite-defeated drug habit. In case you're not up to speed with the way Amy's face has been deteriorating, ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mummified Dinosaur Uncovered
	There are mummies which can be older than those of the ancient pharaohs. Some even older than 65 Ma. An amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, is being brought to light in North Dakota's state museum. Dakota is an Edmontosaurus, one of the largest duckbilled dinosaurs and was discovered in southwestern North Dakota in 2004. The fossilized skin of the 67-Ma-old dino ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Humans Have Lighter or Darker Skin Color?
	It is simplistic to differentiate people in races based on the skin tones. What we call Blacks can be separated in many races, equally or not related between them and other races; the term White is misleading too. In the case of the so-called Mongoloid race, skin tones vary significantly. But no matter what, skin color is one of the most visible factors that helps differentiate human look, and a new research adds to explain u ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Bullfrog Prolongs Your Life!
	In tales, the princess must kiss a frog to turn it into the charming prince. In reality, this may not happen, but frogs have various uses around the world. We cannot say frogs are a stable component of the human diet, but in some countries people do eat frogs. Italians and French consider the frog legs a delicacy and, in other European countries, you could also serve them as "slough chicken". In some areas of Latin America, ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 02:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mobile Phone Radiation Changes the Skin Structure!
	You would stay for hours talking on your brand-new mobile phone. Do you think that the molecules of your body are non-responsive to the radiation emitted by the mobile phones? You should know that researchers have linked radiation of 884 MHz to insomnia, headaches and concentration difficulties. A recent Israeli research has connected the use of cell phones for many hours daily to a 50% increase on the likelihood of developing ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Aluminum Hardcase for Your iPod Nano
	With all the accessory makers today rushing to offer iPod and iPhone owners protection as well as style, you don& ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Black Pepper to Treat the Skin Disease of Michael Jackson
	Here is the solution to see Michael Jackson black again and with a healthy skin: black pepper could treat his skin disease called vitiligo. If it is vitiligo, as medical science calls it so, a condition in which areas of skin lose pigmentation, turning white. A new research made at King's College London and published in the "British Journal of Dermatology" has found that piperine, the alkaloid that induces the pungent flavor ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Snake Venom Against Wrinkles!
	The snake venom varies significantly between different groups of serpents. Some venoms are hemolytic: they predigest the prey, acting like a powerful digesting juice, producing tissue degradation, necrosis and hemorrhage. These bites are extremely painful. Most vipers possess a powerful venom of this type and with their huge fangs can introduce large amounts of venom into the wounds. Sea snake venom provokes elimination of mioglobin (muscl ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Offspring that Eat the Skin of Their Living Mother!
	First of all, only the existence of the caecilian species is odd by itself. When we think of amphibians, our mind goes to frogs and toads; some may also think of newts and salamanders. But who would suspect the tropical caecilians, resembling a combination between a snake and an earthworm, to be amphibians, sprouted from the same ancestors of the frogs and newts? Besides being weird, the caecilians mostly live hidden in the gr ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 04:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Gel Impedes Wrinkle Formation in Skin Grafts
	Wrinkles can be history. At least in the case of burned victims that received skin grafts. A new gel could impede the painful and disfiguring contractions of skin grafts. Irreparably burned skin can be replaced by grafts taken from other areas of the patient’s body or made by tissue engineering. In most cases, the grafts heal successfully, but in about 30 % of the cases the skin wrinkles significantly and, besides the pain, th ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is Scratching So Pleasant?
	Ooh! Aah! Even a tree bark would be good for that back itch. Scratching is something that can escape your control, and eventually damage your skin. Now, a research published in the "Journal of Investigative Dermatology" explains what's going on in our brain when we scratch. The team at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has used for this study functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, which display t ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 04:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cross-Section Dinosaur Skin Found!
	This is more than bones and fossilized feces: the fossilized skin of this dinosaur found in northeastern China (Liaoning Province) even had a wound, and it is by now the best sample of dinosaur skin. The 130-million-year-old Psittacosaurus (parrot lizard) was a sheep sized beaked dino, forebear of the later more famous horned dinosaurs, like Triceratops and its relatives. This fossilized dino had a bite wound on its lower left side com ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Good Sun Exposure Effects Outweigh the Bad Effects
	Is the sun good or bad for your health? A new research made at the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" points that what you gain with moderately increased exposure to sunlight (i.e. vitamin D, involved in preventing cancers and other illnesses), could overcome the risk of skin cancer in the case of people who have a deficiency in this ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fluorescent Bulbs Can Burn Your Skin!
	We are eager to hamper the global warming. Using energy-saving light bulbs we would consume just one quarter of the energy of conventional light bulbs, saving 2,000 times their weight in greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide), worthing their five times higher price. Some complain the fluorescent bulbs are either "cold" or "green", warm up in a minute and flicker. But the British Migraine Action Associati ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

6 Things You Did Not Know About Touch
	1.Touch is not a sense, but a complex of senses. It is the last resort, when we want to be sure that the other senses have not cheated us, to see if what we see/hear/smell is really what it seems. The touch comprises our whole body, and includes sensation of pain and temperature. Various senses linked to touch have various types of corpuscles or nervous terminations. 2.Touch allows to feel caressing, but also to assess si ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet the Blue Man!
	Silver has been priced for millennia and even from the Middle Ages, royal and noble houses used silver dishes due to their disinfectant effect. Colloidal silver is still sold as an universal panacea, being advertised as a cold drug, decongestant, all-around germ fighter, a type of universal remedy. But is there any real reason to avoid colloidal silver ? YES, and it can induce some severe and weird side effects. This is 57-yea ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Flammable Ego: Philips Lights Up Your Inner Self
	This ain't such an unexpected maneuver as Philips mentioned about the SKIN Probe Project months ago. The concept is based on the idea that it "examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing – the shift from ‘ intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’ products and technologies." Dailymail.co.uk reports on Philips's project, which became the "Bubelle" dress. On the techni ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 12:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Humans Are Black or White?
	First humans might have been black, but once they started the migration out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, their skin color gradually paled, in the new colder climes. 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age, marine stickleback fish started to colonize lakes and streams in Europe, Asia and North America, and they seem to have experienced a similar color change. A new research led by Howard Hughes, Medical Institute investigator, a ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Sexy Thighs? Coffee Is the Secret!
	Now it's clear why women crave for coffee: it's about nice legs. For most westerners, there's no breakfast without coffee, and coffee is clearly the world's most important trade crop. Some researchers are trying to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, whereas others look at it as the devil’s beverage. There are voices saying that it’s rather a bogus. A new research, published in the ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret of the Skin's Strength: Velcro Pattern
	Skin is like a coat tailored from a sole piece, covering the body from head to feet, protecting against wind, being water-proof, strong but still elastic, and continuously renewing itself. It protects the body against blows, cuts, rain, wind, radiations, powerful sunlight, and germs. A new research, published in the journal "Nature", comes with the best look ever of the interactions inside human skin cells, revealing a Velcr ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 02:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Can Sun Be Harmful For Your Health?
	Sun rays can heal and destroy; they can be the kiss of life or death, depending on the way we use them or how much time we spend being exposed to them. Sunlight is known to kill microbes, strengthen the immune and cardiovascular system, improve mood, insomnia and liver functioning, to help the synthesis of vitamin D, the elimination of toxins, to fight cancer of colon, breast, leukemia and lymphomas. Sun rays can help one lo ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Complete Dinosaur Mummy Found!
	Mummies can go far beyond the era of the ancient pharaohs. Even to the dinosaur era. Researchers have just revealed the discovery of an amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, including well preserved tendons and ligaments, which are seldom discovered nowadays, when most dinosaur remains that are found are only scattered bones. The discovery of the 67-million-year-old ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Nice Skin? Then Take Up Exercise!
	Sports practicing even at an older age means more than good looks: it improves the general functioning of the body, from heart and brain to immunity. But a novel research at the University of Illinois and published in the American Journal of Physiology shows that exercise makes you look younger also due to a healthier skin: moderate exercising lowers inflammation of damaged skin tissue. "The improved healing response may be the res ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scientists Achieve Embryonic Stem Cells from the Skin!
	In the end, there may be no need to kill human embryos for getting stem cells, as two teams have achieved embryonic stem cells from human skin cells. The newly induced pluripotent cells could turn into various cell types of the human organism. "The advantage of using [such] reprogrammed skin cells is that any cells developed for therapeutic purposes can be customized to the patient. They are probably more clinically relevant than ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Frogs for Nice Skin
	Salamanders amaze us with their ability of regrowing limbs, but till we are able to do the same with our own limbs based on the salamanders' model, their relatives, the frogs, are on the way of delivering us a drug for correcting nasty facial scars. This would be the result of a team's research at Manchester University in Northern England, also investigating the amphibians' ability of regrowing limbs. "Human and amp ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Healthy Skin? Drink Coffee!
	Today we spend more holidays in sunny exotic places, but this increased exposure to sun can cause skin cancer, especially amongst light-skinned racial types, due to ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation. And here comes the controversial and at the same time praised coffee. Coffee consume could cut the risk of skin cancer by 35 %, according to a new research published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention. Subjects drinking over ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Dandruff Has Sex!
	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 producing the large array of household items, from toilet tissue to shampoo, announced on Tuesday they ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 02:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Texan Chupacabra, Just a Coyote!
	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 hunter that roamed Africa for four years, believed that could be the roadkill she encountered in August 2007 out ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

14 Amazing Facts About Crocodiles
	1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne! Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose! The smallest crocodile is the dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) from central Africa, which has a maximum length of 1.9 m (6.5 ft). ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Ghost Animals
	Ghosts do not exist only in fiction movies and horror stories. They can be real, even if they do or do not induce nightmares and sleep impairments. 1.Indeed, the best species to impersonate a ghost is the bat. The ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas), also named the Australian False Vampire Bat, is endemic to Australia and its extremely thin patagyum (wing membrane) makes it "glow" ghostly at night. The gray fur on their backs and th ... [read more >>]
	27 October 2007, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Suicide Neanderthal Blonde
	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 University of Barcelona. "In the cases of both Neanderthals and modern Europeans, the gene mutation that ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Europeans Have Such Diversely Colored Hair/Eye/Skin?
	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 people in other races. There are some tens of mutations that induced these variation amongst Europeans, explaining so many h ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Broccoli Will Save Your Skin
	Besides turning you skinny, vegetables can also save your skin. A new research shows that a broccoli ingredient lowers sunburn damage induced by UV light. UV radiation breaks down our DNA and this can provoke cancer. Humans have natural mechanisms for repairing damaged DNA, but UV induced damage can sometimes be too massive. Cancer researchers have been searching for methods to enhance body's natural mechanisms. This tim ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Things You Did Not Know About the Human Skin
	Can you imagine a coat tailored from a sole piece, covering the body from head to feet, protecting against wind, being water-proof, strong but still elastic, and continuously renewing itself? Well, this is your skin! 1. The skin is our largest organ. Extended, it has a surface of about 2 square meters (18 sq ft), about the size of a normal sheet. It weighs on average 3 kg (8.5 pounds), about 5 % of our body weight. Its thickness varies ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia