|
Home / News / Tags / weight
|
|
The weight of supermassive black holes found in the center of galaxies is usually estimated by measuring the effects of the huge gravitational fields on the objects located in the vicinity of the black holes in question. Now, a new and precise weighing method developed at the University of California with the help of... |
17 July 2008
11:25 GMT |
 |
|
Although surprising, the new discovery confirms once again that freezing the embryos after fertilization does not harm them in any way. During a study regarding children born both as a result of conventional In Vitro Fertilization and through IVF using frozen embryos, Anja Pinborg of the Copenhagen University Hospita... |
8 July 2008
05:50 GMT |
|
|
Some of the states in the US use truck weighing as a reference when calculating the taxes for transported goods but also to ensure that the weight of the truck transporting the respective good is within the specifications of the road system. The maximum weight may vary according to the characteristics of the road, bu... |
23 May 2008
09:43 GMT |
|
|
Radial engines became widely popular during the World War II and have been mostly used to power the propellers of airplanes such as the B-25 and the B-17 bombers, or even commercial airplanes like the DC-3. Basically, a radial engine is similar to gasoline internal combustion engines, only that the pistons are dispos... |
16 May 2008
08:36 GMT |
|
|
This could be the dream of any junk food lover and sport hating couch potato: becoming slim without decreasing food consumption. In a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an Australian team has found a possible way of losing weight without limiting food intake, a breakthrough tha... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
|
|
Indeed, rhinos are horses' (and donkeys' and zebras', too) closest evolutionary cousins. And it appears that some horses prove this through their size. Digger, a British Clydesdale, at its 6ft 6in (1.95 m) height at the withers, is Britain's biggest living horse. The horse is only four years old, ... |
28 January 2008
05:40 GMT |
|
|
Often called 'frozen smoke', aerogels represent materials derived from a gel compound in which the liquid components have been switched with a gas. Despite the fact that their names suggests that they are gel-like, aerogel materials are anything but that. They are dry materials and have properties similar t... |
22 January 2008
09:14 GMT |
|
|
As it always goes, scientists have to step up every once in a while to tell the world stuff that is just common knowledge really. This time around they're declaring the Wii as NOT a substitute for doing real sport since expending 60kcal (250 kJ) per gameplay hour isn't enough to make people lose weight.Acco... |
27 December 2007
06:39 GMT |
|
|
What do you know! I guess it pays off to be annoying and boring at times, and go into long rants about what it means to be fat and so on. I'm not being mean here - just realistic. Just to make everything clear, I'm talking about Jennifer Love Hewitt, and I'm sure you all know by now about that "scandal... |
20 December 2007
06:02 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
The Western world is experiencing a pandemic of obesity. Over 60 % of the American adults are overweight or obese and this is a growing tendency. How does this influence people's minds?A new Cornell research published in the journal Eating Behaviors revealed that 90 % of the 310 college female subjects would lik... |
22 November 2007
04:39 GMT |
|
|
An average baby has at birth around 3.2 kg (7 pounds, 1 ounce). The heaviest baby ever was born in the US in 1879: 23 pounds, 12 ounces (10.7 kg), but he died 11 hours after being born, as too much or too little above/below the average value decreases fitness. The heaviest baby also to survive was born in 1955 in Ita... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
|
|
Who could doubt that Chihuahua dogs, a race that has its origins in the north of Mexico, are the world's smallest pooches? The problem is now that there is a fierce competition on deciding upon the world's smallest Chihuahua/dog. At one and a half year old, Boo Boo, a long coated Chihuahua, of just 4 inche... |
1 October 2007
14:11 GMT |
|
|
The obsession of these… 'living skeletons' for not gaining weight and the relentless pursuit of thinness may seem funny. But anorexia nervosa can lead to death in 10 % of the cases, besides the severe illnesses, due to the emaciation. Anorexia usually installs in adolescence, but it also appear throughout ... |
26 September 2007
06:43 GMT |
|
|
Keira Knightley has recently claimed that she is "twice the size" of most Hollywood actresses. This may mean one of two things. She either suffers from a severe, undiagnosed eye condition that makes her see herself about 10 times larger than she really is, or she's simply delusional. And while I like Keira too m... |
18 September 2007
06:37 GMT |
|
|
It is true that the oldest horse, Hyracotherium, was the size of a fox. And it's equally true that the closest relatives of horses, donkeys and zebras are the rhinoceros. And the world's records in horse sizes do vary from a fox to a rhinoceros. The largest horses in the world belong to the English breed Sh... |
30 July 2007
14:41 GMT |
|
|
Smoking and drinking scare most of the pregnant women, but for most of them, pregnancy is a pretext to pig out. "Physicians need to be aggressively counseling women about the importance of starting pregnancy at a healthy weight," said Temple University obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Vani Dandolu.His team discovered t... |
13 July 2007
03:57 GMT |
|
|
Wait a minute, I thought the PS2 was history... Guess I was wrong. According to MaxConsole, Sony has started shipping a lighter by 300 grams PlayStation 2, also acknowledging that the AC adapter has also been cut in terms of weight. However, the most interesting thing about the whole deal would be that all this is oc... |
9 July 2007
08:10 GMT |
|
|
We tend to believe that bodyweight variations are strictly linked to the changes in fatty body mass. Still, they can be also the result of acute changes in total body water. Body weight changes triggered by climate usually take the form of weight gain rather than weight loss, especially when the body acclimates to in... |
12 June 2007
15:46 GMT |
|
|
80 % of us suffer from back pains during our lives. In 90 % of the cases, the problem is solved in over 6 weeks. That's why it is important to follow some rules in daily life to decrease the number of painful episodes. The most frequent causes are diseases like arthrosis, muscular contracture, trauma, osteoporos... |
12 June 2007
14:11 GMT |
|
|
You cannot play with the hormones. Some powder can change your behavior completely. And even if the aim is just improving sport performances, the results can be nasty, especially when women play with male sexual hormones. A team led by Dr. Diane Elliot from the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at Oregon... |
7 June 2007
15:51 GMT |
|
|
A new low-density aerogel has been created by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. It's made of carbon nanotubes and exhibits extraordinary characteristics, being able to sustain a mass 8,000 times bigger than its own.Aerogels are low-density gel-like solids, where the liquid component of the gel has ... |
18 May 2007
02:43 GMT |
|
|
Exercising in the gym may seem boring for many, but now experts have developed a vertical workstation which makes you burn calories while working. Mayo Clinic researchers in New York have stated that this could enable obese people to lose 30kg (75 pounds) yearly. 15 obese subjects burned an average of 191 kcal per ho... |
15 May 2007
06:27 GMT |
|
|
That's it: the secret of the Chinese figure is to be found in the soy. A team from University of Illinois focused on how precisely soy helps in losing weight. "We wanted to compare the effects of soy protein hydrolysates and soy peptides with those of leptin because we hypothesized that soy might behave in the b... |
2 May 2007
06:35 GMT |
|
|
It's like weighing a dream. Or a thought. Only that it's material. But researchers have succeeded in weighing a single living cell. Previous attempts resulted ineffective as any sample had to be dried, killing the cells. The new method allows for the weighing of samples as light as 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 g... |
26 April 2007
02:53 GMT |
|
|
Each new generation seems somehow physically improved compared to previous ones. It's a fact that current generations are taller than the ones before it, and this is attributed to a better alimentation and knowledge about food. Now, the Clore Laboratory at the University of Buckingham is developing an infant ... |
23 April 2007
07:14 GMT |
|
|
Just some numbers: from 1980 to 2000, the percentage of obese Americans rose from 15 % to 31 % of the population.This came also accompanied by the diseases associated with overweight. Dieting is the most recommended solution against this condition.But is it effective? "You can initially lose 5 to 10 % of your weight... |
5 April 2007
04:46 GMT |
|
|
Nutrition is nowadays a global concern. Apart from the issues regarding the poverty in third world countries and the struggle to end world hunger, food has become much of a problem for most high-developed countries, as they face problems with obesity. While others are desperate for food, an overwhelming percent of pe... |
4 April 2007
11:07 GMT |
|
|
Diet and exercise are the key to a fit body. But their impact is quite different in boys and girls. A new British research found that exercise acts differently on body fat for boys and girls. The researchers found that recommendations on exercise to decrease the up-going tendency of obesity in children have tackled w... |
29 March 2007
02:59 GMT |
|
|
|
|
