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Nov 22, 2023
Reddit’s popular wine community is full of stories about the dreaded “red wine headache.”
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Nov 7, 2023
Numerous hypotheses attempt to explain obesity‘s meteoric rise over the past few decades. There’s the energy balance hypothesis, which states that weight gain is due...
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Jul 19, 2023
Last Friday, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization, classified aspartame, a non-nutritive sweetener widely...
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Jul 5, 2023
In 2019, the World Health Organization for the first time included Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health...
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Jun 22, 2023
In 2017, Dr. Kinnon MacKinnon, an assistant professor of social work at York University in Toronto, thought that transgender detransitioning wasn't really a thing. Sure, a few people...
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May 23, 2023
There are few things more quintessentially human than the way we walk. Millions of years of evolution primed our anatomy and physiology for walking upright on two legs,...
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May 15, 2023
There is a prevailing narrative that academic science is rife with gender bias against women.
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May 8, 2023
Most people are not experiencing a "good" death.
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Apr 4, 2023
The collective effort to improve the treatment of cancer is often described as a “war“, as if malignant tumors are a scourge to be ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed the...
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Feb 22, 2023
Changes in the seasons affect myriad forms of life on Earth. Deciduous trees shed their leaves in fall before regrowing them in spring. Bears, squirrels, turtles, and various other...
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Feb 20, 2023
Do you ever feel like your brain isn't meant for modern times, like it's a relic of a bygone era? After all, we're afraid of snakes and spiders, even though we rarely encounter them...
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Jan 23, 2023
Strokes commonly strike the old. The average age for the devastating condition — in which blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the...
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Jan 16, 2023
Over the years, countless drinkers have experienced the warm embrace of a “booze blanket.” Consuming alcohol can make imbibers feel impervious to cold because the drug...
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Jan 6, 2023
Sex is extraordinarily salubrious, relieving stress, providing exercise, improving sleep, and lowering the risk of prostate cancer, amongst many other benefits. Scientists...