Health

Charles Darwin: sailor, scientist, beard aficionado.

In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy

The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns

In her seminal rose diagram, Florence Nightingale demonstrated that far more soldiers died from preventable epidemic diseases (blue) than from wounds inflicted on the battlefield (red) or other causes (black) during the Crimean War (1853-56). “She did this with a very specific purpose of driving through all sorts of military reforms in military hospitals subsequent to the Crimean War," says Kieniewicz.

Infographics Through the Ages Highlight the Visual Beauty of Science

An exhibit at the British Library focuses on the aesthetic appeal of 400 years of scientific data

A war disbled man, who lost both of his arms in World War I, learns to hold knife and fork with his prostheses.

The "Star Wars" Prosthetic Arm Was Approved for Sale in the U.S.

The advanced prosthetic reads muscle contractions and turns them into motion

Hurricanes Katrina And Rita Caused At Least 117 Uncounted Deaths, of Stillborn Babies

Higher rates of stillbirths overlapped with the most devastated areas in the aftermath of those 2005 natural disasters

10 Things Science Says About Being A Mom In 2014

Among them: she usually underestimates the height of her youngest child and her diet when she conceives could change her offspring's DNA.

This City in California Voted in Favor of Making Bullying a Crime

Bullying can seriously harm kids, for years. But should it really be punished by law?

Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken by Josse Lieferinxe

The Black Death Actually Improved Public Health

Analysis of skeletons from before and after the height of the epidemic yields surprising results

A Buddhist monk meditates in Cambodia.

Breathing Deeply May Actually Boost Your Body's Immune System

The power of the trained mind over the body is truly an amazing thing

Society Doesn’t Quite Know What to Make of Professional Snugglers

One snuggling operation in Wisconsin recently shut down when authorities thought it was a front for a brothel

Surgeons Are Ready to Put Trauma Patients Into Hibernation

By chilling the body, trauma surgeons can buy more time

The virus responsible for the Middle East respiratory syndrome.

The MERS Virus Has Been Detected in the U.S.

But the specter of what the SARS-like virus could do is scarier than what it actually is doing right now

Environment Matters As Much As Genes for Kids Who Develop Autism Spectrum Disorders

A new study found that environmental and genetic factors were equally important in assessing kids' risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder

Scientists Transformed Men's Skin Cells Into Immature Sperm Cells

When inserted in mice testes, men’s skin cells were coaxed into becoming immature sperm cells

Here’s Why There Will Probably Never Be a Hangover Prevention Pill

If it was easily doable, someone would have invented it already

Lone Bacteria Are More Likely to Become Drug Resistant Than Big Colonies

This finding could help design ways to prevent antibiotic resistance

A cluster of variola viruses viewed under an electron microscope. Strains of the variola virus cause smallpox disease.

Should We Destroy Our Last Living Samples of the Virus That Causes Smallpox?

Later this month, the World Health Organization will decide whether or not to get rid of two live virus repositories in the United States and Russia

Mosquitoes Kill More Humans Than Human Murderers Do

From a human perspective, this makes them the deadliest animal in the world by far

Engineers Are Constructing a Giant Steel Lid to Contain Chernobyl’s Radioactive Core

The arch-shaped lid will protect against radioactive dust should Chernobyl's decaying facilities collapse

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will soon replace the blood of trauma patients with cold saline solution to slow down the cell's metabolism to where there's no signs of brain activity, nor pulse.

This Radical Treatment Pushes Victims to the Brink of Death in Order to Save Their Lives

Researchers are putting trauma patients in a state between life and death with a technique known in movies as "suspended animation"

Long-Haul Space Flights Might Damage Astronauts' Brains

This warning is based on a study involving rats, but researchers think it could apply to humans as well

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