NEW YORK – All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today’s tech-savvy generation doesn’t care about privacy. Such an assumption fits happily with declarations that privacy is dead, as online marketers and social sites such as Facebook try to persuade people [...]
Continue reading →Agence France-Presse|VANCOUVER – Contrary to common opinion, daydreaming is not slacking off because when the brain wanders it is working even harder to solve problems, new research has shown. Scientists scanned the brains of people lying inside magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, as they alternately pushed buttons or rested. The scans showed that the “default [...]
Continue reading →Here’s a list of pandemics and pandemic threats that have swept the globe over the years. An image of the SARS coronavirus captured by the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Microbiology. WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) From November 2002to July 2003, the WHO recorded 8,096 cases of SARS, a respiratory disease caused by [...]
Continue reading →NEW YORK (Reuters) -Think positive, especially if you want to retain a good memory as you age. That’s the advice of scientists at North Carolina State University who found that expecting to have a diminishing memory with age could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In a study published in the journal Experimental Aging Research, they found [...]
Continue reading →Reuters | CHICAGO – Healthy men who took Cialis or Viagra daily for six months did not develop any significant vision problems, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a company-funded study aimed at addressing concerns about the popular impotence treatments. Pfizer Inc’s Viagra or sildenafil and Eli Lilly and Co’s Cialis or tadalafil treat impotence [...]
Continue reading →MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) – Caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? It’ll make you a better employee, according to an Australian study that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity. The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent [...]
Continue reading →BERLIN – It was a nightmare scenario worthy of a sci-fi movie script: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours of the accident, several members of a tightly bound, yet farflung community of virologists, biologists and others tensely gathered in a [...]
Continue reading →WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who eat the most red meat and the most processed meat have the highest overall risk of death from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The National Cancer Institute study is one of the largest to look at the highly controversial and emotive issue of [...]
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