New Research

Bicycle Helmets Really Do Work, But You Have to Wear Them

Helmets accounted for an 88 percent lower risk of brain injury, but people still aren't wearing them

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On the Beach, Men Are More Likely to Approach a Tattooed Woman

Men are more likely to approach a woman with a tattoo, and more likely to expect a date or sex with that woman

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Scottish Wildcats Are Interbreeding Themselves Into Extinction

One researcher thinks Scottish wildcats could be gone within two years thanks to hybridization with domestic house cats

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Why a Simple Message—Fat Is Bad—Is Failing

Extra pounds are extra years off your life, we hear. But the science isn't so sure about that

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Western U.S. Forest Fires Could Double Within 40 Years

In the western U.S., the area burned by forest fires should increase by as much as 100% by 2050

An Aging Mathematician Made a Major Dent in One of Math’s Oldest Problems

Before his breakthrough involving the twin prime conjecture, Yitang Zhang struggled to find work in academia and even took a job at Subway

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Like Your Mother Warned, Chilly Winter Air Does Indeed Promote Colds

Colds proliferate when temperatures drop and cold air chills peoples' upper respiratory tracts, giving rhinoviruses a chance to strike

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Bears That Have No Fish to Eat Eat Baby Elk Instead

The illegal introduction of lake trout in Yellowstone's lakes is having wide-reaching consequences

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Stressing Out About Shots Might Make Them Work Better

In trials with mice, stress boosted the immune system, making it vaccines more effective

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Wealthy Economic Liberals Actually Are Wimps

In the animal kingdom, larger males are likewise prone to hoard resources and defend larger territories than weaker competitors

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Specially-Trained Honeybees Forage for Land Mines

With special training, these honeybees can sniff out TNT

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Your Public Pool Probably Has Feces in It

In the majority of public pools health officials found E. coli and other fecal bacteria

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The Life-Saving App That Sends Pictures of Your Heartbeat to Doctors

A new app outpaces email when sending crucial medical data from the ambulance to the hospital

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Should Students Who Are Bad at Math Receive Therapeutic Electro-Shock Treatments?

Students who had their brains zapped solved math questions 27 percent faster than those who did not

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Invasive Crazy Ants Are Eating Up Invasive Fire Ants in the South

How ecosystems will function if fire ants suddenly disappear and are replaced by crazy ants remains an open but worrying question

Doctors Used to Use Live African Frogs As Pregnancy Tests

Now, those former test subjects may be spreading the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus around the world

For the first time in human history the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has reached 400 parts per million.

A Friendly Reminder From Pretty Much Every Climate Scientist in the World: Climate Change Is Real

Yes, climate change is real. Yes, we are causing it.

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Water Cut Off From the World for Billions of Years Is Bubbling From the Bottom of a Mine

1.5 miles down at the base of a Canadian mine life may have thrived

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Scientists Are Finding Clues to the Next Mega-Earthquake in One That Hit the West Coast in 1700

Researchers now know details of how the infamous earthquake of 1700 struck the West Coast

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Peeping in on the Process of Turning Caterpillar to Butterfly

Previously, researchers hoping to learn about metamorphosis had to dissect the chrysalis, which killed the developing insect inside

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